Community Stops Giving Teens Access to Alcohol
There are lots of obvious reasons why adults shouldn’t buy alcohol for teenagers. Drinking damages the developing brains and growing bodies of America’s youth. Alcohol takes away their sense of judgment – it can lead them to making more poor decisions. Theft, damages, and other crimes committed by young adults are often the result of alcoholism. In other cases, the effects of alcohol can be so intense that many teens don’t even live to get the chance to go into rehab.
Unfortunately, those reasons alone aren’t enough to stop some adults from giving teenagers access to alcohol. A Washington Post story informs us that a young, nineteen year old woman was able to stand outside of a convenience store and ask others to purchase alcohol for her. Shockingly enough, people really did buy the alcohol for her, even though she was clearly underage.
The people who bought into her scheme were in for a real surprise – she was reported to be working undercover for the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office. All of the offenders were arrested for their illegal actions.
It’s sad that it takes measures like these to insure our communities stop giving teenagers and young adults who are underage access to alcohol. With any luck, these tactics will serve as a wake-up call for communities everywhere.
July 1st, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Yes, I can remember on my countless trips into a Liquor Store, being asked by others, to help with their (illegal) purchase. Fortunately, thankfully we never did. And why someone would, rather astounds me, but then again, we’ve given a few dollars here and there to people begging on the street, thinking/hoping it’s for their supper (?) but, who really knows!
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:44 am
In thinking of drug addiction and alcoholism as a whole body, mind and spirit problem, we have also thought up solutions to treat, nurture and heal the entire individual.