Alcohol Abuse and Your Health

First of all, the article, “Alcohol Abuse and Your Health,” it reports the statistics of alcohol abuse of young people, such as drinking too much and heavy drinking, and the rate of each term is increasing. Next, it mentions the relation between alcohol and health and how it affects brain and heart. According to several studies, alcohol indeed causes diseases. Furthermore, it writes the rate of alcohol-related driving accidents is higher than before, including fatal crashes. When a person drinks alcohol, his behavior will be affected. For instance, he can’t control the muscles of eyes, eyes and hands lose the function of working together, just focuses on one thing but ignore the other situation on the road, and can’t have good judgment when he drives. In the end, it emphasizes don’t drive when you drink alcohol for keeping yourself and the others safe.

Every day, we can see many fatal accidents related to alcohol, but it is still difficult to reduce the rate of alcohol driving, especially young people. Nowadays most of the youth have stable resource of life expense from parents. So they just focus on developing relationships with friends. And the abilities of binge and heavy drinking are the way to strengthen the friendship. It’s hard to let them know how painful the accident is until they get the experience in which they have to pay for it. However, people forget eventually, and the same story will be played circularly. Thus, the government should enact more severe laws of alcohol drinking and driving to prevent tragedies happening over and over again.

By Bi-Chien