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Why do high school seniors drink?

Posted on Dec 7th 2007 12:01PM by Brian White

Filed Under: Nutrition & Supplements

If you remember your high school days, the terms peer pressure and experimentation were probably pretty common. So were drinking, partying and even drug use if you ran with the wrong kind of crowd.

New research says that partying isn't the only reason high school kids get drunk, though. The top reason surveyed high schoolers gave for their drinking? To have a good time. Having 'experiences' apparently trumped good judgment in these kid's cases.

Other top motivations to drink in high school included:

Experimenters: Drinking to experiment with alcohol. The largest group
Thrill Seekers: Drinking to get high. More common among boys than girls
Relaxers: Drinking to relax
Multi-reasoners: Drinking for many reasons, including anger and frustration

And to think -- these kids weren't even living in the real world yet. Yikes!

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Tags: drunk, high school drinking, HighSchoolDrinking, peer pressure, PeerPressure, teenage drinking, TeenageDrinking

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Eddie 12-07-2007 @ 2:29PM

I wish I would've drunk in high school. I took the "high road" and there's not a day I don't regret it.

That whole time period in life is all about experimenting and playing with fire and getting burned while there's a semblance of protection around you. The good side of high schoolers who start early END early, having tasted the forbidden fruits and found them to be what most responsible adults know they are: momentary, costly diversions to be enjoyed (or tolerated) in moderation.

I've known plenty of people who were the "good kids" only to fly off the handle at 18 and spend valuable years of their life experimenting well into adulthood, when they could have done it in high school where you're relatively untouchable.