Underage Drinking Do you consider alcohol to be a drug? Many people unfortunately do not consider beer, malt beverages, and other alcoholic beverages to be a dangerous drug. Alcohol kills more than 50 times the number of people killed by cocaine, heroin, and every other illegal drug combined. Alcohol use is also the number one youth drug problem. Underage drinking can cause irreversible brain damage and research shoes that the earlier children drink, the more likely …showed first 75 words of 700 total…

…showed last 75 words of 700 total…more attention to cocaine and marijuana use than the number one most used drug among young people. Some parents may seem relieved that the only thing their child does is drink. People think there are a lot more dangerous things people can do besides drink. I ask them all to think again. It ruins lives, hopes and dreams. Under alcohol ones judgement is altered. Most shattered dreams could have been prevented by one single choice.