When you are 16 and you are studying bachillerato, be sure that your free time will be pretty short or you won’t have it most of times. So your leisure activities can’t be long last or be settled far away because of the time.
While young people are not at school or doing endless homework go out with friends for a walk or a drink (just if you are very lucky enough and do not have homework or you have holidays you can go to the cinema or shopping). Some people go out at night and most of them get drunk or takes drugs (or even both), so they return home high.
To stop this is a challenge for the government, which thinks that it is disgusting and unhealthy for young people. And every year it spends huge amounts of money making advertising campaigns which seem to be useless.
First of all, banned things are more attractive; in the past teens drunk alcohol too, but now that is illegal, alcohol drinking has increased a lot. And secondly, young people who drink do it for different reasons: ones do it because they like the taste and drink just a little, others who do it just because they think that if they are drunk the world seems to be funnier, and the ones who drink because it is a way to get into a social group.
Knowing this, making teens know that alcohol is not the solution of their problems or the ticket to the popular life is maybe the best solution. Because everybody who drinks knows that alcohol is unhealthy, if you drink too much and people who gets drunk does not mind at all, so the campaigns telling the alcohol effects aren’t useful at all.
But, to be honest, the government can’t reach the objective without parents’ aid, who let their sons drink and go out at night when they are aged 13 or even younger
by Paula Conde 1ºc Bach
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