Binge drinking is often popular among teenagers nowadays. Binge drinking is when someone drinks an excessive amount of alcohol within a short period of time. This is so dangerous I can’t even begin to dissect this matter. Many people turn their heads to underage drinking, that it simply doesn’t matter. I’m here; to mention that it does, teenagers aren’t drinking just for fun. They are drinking to escape their problems. Its bad enough they are drinking at all. This all starts with how much is enough to be drinking according to (About, 2012, Binge Drinking, npd).

            Drinking can seem like fun at first but with everything you do there, comes consequences. Kids across America are speaking that they had their first drink at the age of 10 for boys and 13 for girls. That’s a little bit too young in my books I would expect 17 but not 10 or 13. Their goals for drinking are mainly to get drunk and feel that buzz and lose consciousness which isn’t healthy. The ugly side to it is that it leads you with bad skin; it dehydrates your skin and rids it of its natural oils which leaves it cracked and peeling. Also you get a bad night of sleep; there is a chemical in alcohol that gives you a jolt of energy that will disrupt your ‘happy’ sleep according to (Life Script,Jennifer Gruenemay, 2006,npd). Weight gain and the severity of the effect of alcohol do dangers to you.