Do you seriously become an alcoholic if you drink in your teen years?

Question

cuz i drink and im 14

Answer 1

statistics show that you are more likely to become an alcoholic.

Answer 2

there is alot of evidence that shows if you drink between ages 8/9-15 you are very high risk for alcoholism.

secondary the genetic version of alcoholic is only trigger via stress factors in one's life hit a certain point. Which a common mistake thinking that alcohol is only genetic.

Answer 3

There is no evidence that I know of that supports the notion that underage drinking leads to alcoholism at any higher rate than people who start later in life.

There is plenty of evidence that underage drinking leads to pregnancy and getting STD's some of which you cannot get rid of or could die from.  Forget the alcoholism there are many good reasons why a 14 year old especially a girl should be really careful with alcohol.

Be safe out there.  The people you can really trust can probably be counted on the fingers of one hand.

Answer 4

Now that is just not true. Becoming an alcoholic takes time and effort, and I just don't think a 14 year old has the discipline to become a proper drunk.

Answer 5

god you shouldn't be drinking at your age you prob will

Answer 6

if you have self control you we be fine no matter what age.

Answer 7

There would be a lot more alcoholics if it were true.

Answer 8

No, that's not how it works. Alcoholism is a disease where the alcoholic cannot control how much he drinks. He literally loses control of any choice to drink or not once he starts drinking.

Of course, it doesn't help if you start early because your brain is still forming and you can develop other problems like not learning how to manage your anger and other feelings.

Answer 9

no, but it doesnt help. You need to watch your drinking though. Dont drink all the time. It DOES hurt your development right now though. i know that you're going to do what you want to do anyway, just be smart about it.

Answer 10

No. i drank more than i should i have in high school....almost every weekend. im 23 now and i almost never drink....maybe one or two a month. Since i started early, by the time i turned 21, drinking wasnt fun. guess i had enough drunken fun when i was a teenager

Answer 11

You can become an alcoholic. There are 2 forms of alcoholics in this world, the ones that are born that way and the ones that make themselves that way. I myself wasn't born an alcoholic and have no family history of alcoholism, but I started drinking when I was 14 also and turned myself into an alcoholic/addict. You can actually produce the exact toxin in your brain that all born alcoholics have and you can turn yourself into an alcoholic. Believe me, stop while you can and while you are still young. If I would've known then what I know now, I would've quit hands down. Once you get to a certain stage you just can't stop, so watch out for that, it will eat you up.

Answer 12

Despite the widespread view in  America that with regard to “vice” people undergo a transformation akin to that from caterpillar to butterfly at the age of 18 or 21, drinking alcohol can be moderate or excessive, responsible or self-destructive at any age.  There is evidence that people who drink responsibly at home from an early age are far less likely to become alcoholics than those who never touch the stuff unless surreptitiously until they are legal.  Alcohol is very much an open part of teenage life in many European cultures.  However, since alcohol consumption without parental consent before age 21 is illegal, this is evidence of risky behavior, a danger sign of addiction.

In the past, drinking alcoholic beverages was not only considered normal for everyone, but even a health necessity.  One of the objections to the rise of coffee drinking was that it deprived people of the healthful effects of beer and wine.  Beer was long considered to be “liquid bread.”  A shortage of this “victual” was one of the reasons the Puritans (not a partying lot for the most part) decided to land at Plymouth rather than sail further down the coast.  Drinking alcoholic beverages (or other beverages whose preparation included boiling water) was recognized as  healthy with the polluted water of overpopulated, pre-sanitation Europe and Asia, even though an understanding of germ theory was far in the future.  Newcomers to the American frontier had to be taught that it was safe to drink the water.  A french trapper’s phrase chided “spring water won’t kill you, greenhorn.”

Answer 13

no. of course not. theres more things that are factors in whether or not someone becomes an alcoholic. like why they drink...theyre personality...how often they drink...

14 seems a bit young. i dont get why such young kids want to drink? just wait a few years.