I have made two word clouds using a site called NIAAA, and from an article on young people's drinking behavior in Japan, written and based on many surveys and reports.

Top- WordItOut
Bottom- TagCrowd

A word cloud from a site called NIAA.

"SerenitySteps"
A group on Yahoo Answers. This group helps people recover from any kind of addiction (including alcoholism).
Many of the people in this group have suffered problems that require support from their surroundings. Alcoholism, Drug Abuse, and Mental illnesses (bipolar, identity disorder). These people join this group in order to change their lifestyles and to fix whatever their problem is.

This group has over 400 members and recent posts have been taken over by spam; but if you look through everything there are posts regarding members' problems.


For finding more groups about this topic, I suggest going to ExperienceProject. This site revolves around many different groups of people with their own stories to tell.

There are of course both legal and non-legal consequences. Legal consequences are consequences regarding the law. Non-legal are those effecting a person mentally or physcially. Physical consequences include things such as homicide and suicide. Homicide can automatically connect to nasty legal problems as well. Every year 5000 teens die from alcohol related injuries. 1600 of them are from homicide. Underage drinking can also lead to sexual assault and rape, and both males and females can be victims. Rape drugs are also added to alcoholic drinks which create the risk of sexual assault. The long term affects are alcoholism and many internal problems. It can also damage the brain and trigger memory problems. Drinking makes it harder for teens to make accurate decisions and it is said that drinking alcohol increases the risk of students killing themselves. But suicide is only just a small percentage of drinking related deaths every year. Legal consequences are not as harsh as everybody thinks. But everything depends on where the teen lives. They may only lose their drivers license. But some may end up serving time in jail. Sometimes drinking can be related to another serious crime (rape, homicide) which increases the consequences. Another consequence can be put on the parents, or relatives of the teen. They may end up having to paty heavy fines and adults are also at risk of having to serve jail time.

1. Why are college students more likely to binge drink than high school students?
2. Why does age mater? What is exactly the difference between 21 adn 20?
3. Is underage drinking really worth the consequences?
4. What are the consequences of underage drinking?
5. Are the consequences of underage drinking too harsh or just about right?
6. What are the differences between Japanese and American Drinkers?
7. Why do most parents allow underage drinking?
8. Has the percentage of underage drinking increased or decreased within the past few years?
9. Us drunk driving one of the leading causes of death for teenagers?
10. How does alcohol destroy your body?

1. Why is the age limit 20 years old in Japan and not other ages like 18 or 21? 2. How do mothers think when they find out their teenage children are drinking under-aged? 3. Why do teenagers feel that they need to drink? 4. What type of teenagers are likely to drink? 5. What kind of activities do parents do to prevent their under-aged child from drinking? 6. What kind of activities do schools do to prevent under-aged students from drinking? 7. What kind of activities do mass medias do to prevent under-aged children from drinking? 8. What influences/encourages under-aged children to drink? 9. There are some countries that have lower/none age limits. Why does it differ in other countries when under-aged drinking is a problem? 10. Should Japanese children have the rights to choose to drink under-aged?