how does alcohol affect young black youth?
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same as young white youth\n  are you a racist
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Don't drink don't abuse drugs and show children your happy without wine and beer at a party. If you drink in front of a child you show them how to use alcohol to feel good. It may seem way out there but its the truth.
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Parental neglect, peer pressure, lack of self esteem, lack of motivation, lack of supervision and genetic propensity to addiction.\n\nTeens who use drugs are found in every race and every socio-economic level.
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Because little liquor store owners know African American people love to drink,just like every one else.The owners of these stores see that allot of African Americans are just a bit a smarter than others when it comes to the purchase of alcohol,so therefore they go to the liquor store first to get a fade on and then head out to club to get a bit more faded with the outlandishly expensive drinks,like a cranberry and vodka.10 dollars please....Hope this answers your question....Tom Science 4
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No, The inner city is more dangerous than ever. They are still looking for the goverment to solve the problems. Parents are not around at all.\n\nYes, There are more blacks in collage, blacks are everywhere in the media, There are more middle and upper class working blacks with collage degrees. Society is becoming more intergrated.\n\nNo, Black leaders profit from false racism.
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The more alcohol you drink, the more misery you will create for yourself. All medications have slingshot effect. The body creates an opposing force to the drug effect. See site below about a new religion without mention of God. Also tells about a new type of psychology.
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It kills brain cells but you should have more than enough extra ones that it doesnt seem to concern too many people.  When your body metabolizes the alcohol, it turns it into liver fat and over a long period of time can decrease your body's ability to filter your blood through the liver.  It also dehydrates you and this is bad if you are an athlete.  In moderation, your body can deal with most of the bad stuff.
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That sounds like a good school. I don't mean to be negative but I feel like African American youth today are still being taught that they are held back or held down and that's not the case at all. So if they are in an institution where they can't see a majority of themselves and especially in an institution of thriving, they feel it's confirmed.
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Alcohol dulls your senses and causes you to be less sensitive to hearing that "still small voice" of the Spirit of God.  Several verses in the Bible specifically prohibit the consumption of strong drinks.  There are instances, however, where some verses indicate that drinking wine is OK.  Critics of the Bible may use this as an example in saying that the Bible contradicts itself, while others may say that the key factor is whether the wine is fermented (alcoholic), or non-fermented (like grape juice).  Honestly, I myself do not know if ancient Christians drank alcohol or not.\n\nNevertheless, a simple guide in making this decision would be to ask yourself if drinking alcohol will bring you closer to God, or if it will make you more susceptible to falling into Satan's temptations.  \n\nAlcohol is often a primary cause of deadly car accidents, ungodly behavior, fornication, adultery, domestic abuse, murders, and birth defects or miscarriages.\n\nMany will say that it's OK to drink when you just want to have a good time, but that you should never get drunk.  Where do you draw the line?  Satan always tries to blur the lines between sin and morality.  Some people can get addicted to alcohol after just one drink, and having that first drink with a group of friends can potentially lead to a life of alcoholism and misery.  It is always better to stay on the side of caution.  It is not necessary to have alcohol in order to have fun, either.\n\nAn old saying I read many years ago comes to mind:  "What is right is not always popular.  What is popular is not always right."
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Ethanol relaxes the DNA, making it leave its partner, much like the effect it has on humans...\n\nJust kidding
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First of all AA is a particular diaspora and does not apply to all Black people. To answer your question in some cases the minute Black people or any other non WASP group move into a neighborhood no one wants to invest in it. Without resources a neighborhood won't thrive.  I'v seen this happen.  Everyone left and took everything with them. Only thing that was left was an auto parts dealer and Walmart, no one can live on those wages.  They left because of Racism plain and simple. I also think it is a mind thing, the minute a black child leaves the womb thier stamped with Deprived or Inner city or Ghetto or Crime.  It doesn't go away you have to make it go away, If those things were true I wouldn't be working on my 2nd Master's right now. Also there is this stigma that comes with black neighborhoods. That is, that their must be more crime there. So you will have, White males cruzing the streets harrasing women and young girls and trying to by drugs. Like I said before Black neighborhoods lack resources if their were more places to go for help instead of the police station we would be better off. \n\nMy Boss (who is white)asked if it is a good idea to start hiring students at the nearby high school.  The school is mostly Black.  She was concerned that she might have trouble with these kids.  I took offense to this and we began to talk. She asked me why don't we all stick together instead of killing each, why is there so much crime and black women on Welfare. I kindly told her that we are not the ones on Welfare, her people are, and White people kill each other all the time I don't hear the term White on White crime. I also told her that if she paid people decent wages and start some college and mentoring program that might help. She didn't like that answer and she stated a scholorship at a surburban prep school that was mostly white.  I didn't understand, most of the people at my job (who are Black and my job is in a Black Neighborhood) didn't either, so we started a mentoring program.  This reasoning is part of the problem. She completely wrote off a group of people imagine 20 people thinking this way now imagine thoudsands, get my point.  She had it drilled into her her whole life by watching tv and reading the newspaper that Black people are lazy and don't want to work, steal and rape white women. That's part of the problem and that's why there is crime because no one wants to invest. So people sell drugs and their bodies so they can eat and feed their kids. They feel depressed because of their state, so they drink and do drugs. The media creates a demand to have Ipods and shiny jewerly and cars, so they rob and steal to make themselves feel apart of something.  They  go to jail and when they are released can't find a decent job so the are back to selling drugs and their bodies.  They start using drugs again which is observed by their kids so they learn early. Then the cycle starts over and over again.  Just think that, if someone invested in some of these neighborhoods, with better health service and decent paying jobs the cycle would stop.
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Sadly, yes.  \n\nI know someone who tried meth when she was 10.  An older friend gave it to her.  She only tried it once then, but was thinking about trying it again recently.  She's only 13 now.  Both her parents are alcoholics.\n\nMy mom had a patient who was around 13 years old and already had signs of liver damage from alcohol abuse.  She'd be drinking heavily since she was about 6 years old.  Her younger sibling was also abusing alcohol.  They lived with their grandmother who was too sick to go downstairs.\n\nKids as young as 10, and even younger, are recruited into gangs because they're too young to be tried as adults in court.  The courts set lower and lower ages to try kids as adults, and the gangs just recruit younger and younger kids.  They use those kids to traffic drugs, among other things.
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certain alcohols disinfect open cuts and scrapes which are positive physical effects of alcohol but when it comes to drinking alcohol there are no posistive effects. it is a depressant and slows down heart rate. it gets into the blood stream and when the blood passes through the liver(where blood is cleaned) it builds up and if you dink a lot it destroys it. alcohol causes people to think they can do things they cant and causes blurred vision and you can crash your car or get violent with people and those are not good at all
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I have run a search and what I've found is--\n\n"Scientists have found that having an alcoholic family member makes it more likely that if you choose to drink you too may develop alcoholism. Genes, however, are not the whole story. In fact, scientists now believe that certain factors in a person’s environment influence whether a person with a genetic risk for alcoholism ever develops the disease. A person’s risk for developing alcoholism can increase based on the person’s environment, including where and how he or she lives; family, friends, and culture; peer pressure; and even how easy it is to get alcohol."\n\nMy analysis: Genetic makeup sets the baseline as to how susceptible an individual is to drug/alcohol dependency & addiction. This is so because one's genetic makeup influences the amount of protein, enzyme & receptors that are used by the body to detect & utilize the drugs. \n\nFor example, let's say Receptor X is a receptor for cocaine. Individual A has twice as many receptor X as individual B, making individual A more prone to cocaine addiction. Another example would be one's genetic makeup also influences the concentration of enzymes produced. If an individual produces more enzymes that break down alcohol, he will be less susceptible to alcohol addiction (I presume).\n\nRan another search to see if the theory above is correct & came across:\n\n"Scientists have learned how a genetic variation long suspected in making some people susceptible to alcoholism and narcotic drug addiction actually does so.\n\nIn laboratory studies, this variation greatly reduced the amount of protein that the DNA in a cell produced.\n\nIt's the difference in protein expression that may make receptors on certain brain cells much more vulnerable to the effects of addictive drugs, said Wolfgang Sadee, the study's lead author, professor and chair of pharmacology and director of the pharmacogenomics program at Ohio State University. These particular receptors, called mu opioid receptors, serve as a molecular docking station for narcotic drugs and alcohol."
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I give a lot of credit to the 12-step programs for helping those with addictions of various kinds.  But what we really need is prevention, not simply cure, and for that, kids need two basic things:  (1) facts, not emotional pleas but facts, about drugs and alcohol, and (2) other things to do to occupy their time and engage their interest.\n\nMuch of it has to do with certain cliques that treat getting drunk or stoned as "cool," and poison whole schools with their attitude.  The sober ones tend to be religious, which is fine for those who are religious, but leaves everyone else out in the cold.  \n\nSo activities and clubs and people to hang out with that do not revolve around either the drunk and/or stoned crowd or the holier-than-thou crowd are clearly necessary.  I enjoyed meeting a group of interesting young people at the opening of a new game store recently; kids who like to think, and don't like to mess up their thinking with booze or drugs.  There are people who get hooked on history reenactments, or have sports as a focus, or music or art, and they need to be encouraged and sponsored.\n\nFact is, a kid can avoid the downhill slope if he or she wants to, and having members of the opposite sex involved in something more wholesome is probably still the most enticing magnet for most teens.  Hormones are hormones, after all!
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Drug or Alcoholic use on school foundation and or grounds.
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I'm very proud because the statistics say from teenage years to age twenty five a black male will be dead or either in jail. Well you don't meet them statistics. You make this black female very proud and very proud to be black..congratulations. there isn't nothing you can do wrong, because the only way there is to go is up. What ever decision you make is the best. I am graduating high-school one year early. I plan on going to MVCC...then transferring over to a university for production in film and advertisement..and the best part of it all is i am black. A BLACK beautiful women and you give me inspiration. You do not need advice. You are your own inspiration, so keep on inspiring others because you inspired me