Teens And Teen Teenagers: The Latest Teen Fads

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The Latest Teen Fad’s
Teens and young adults do all types of wild things these days. They try everything from snorting condoms, to planking, to car surfing. They indulge in risky behavior day in and day out. They are thrill seekers. Once they have conquered one high they are soon off to another. With YouTube, Periscope, ChatRoulette.com, Skype and a host of other social media outlets anyone can become a star. Or at least experience fifteen minutes of fame even if it is making good on an outrageous bet. Research shows that YouTube has made tutorials accessible and rather easy for teens and young adults when questions arise on the exact method in which an individual needs to follow in order to get the perfect high or intoxication. Here we …show more content…

Trending on YouTube and nearing over five million hits already “smoking alcohol” is one of the terrifying new rages. (Beast, n.d.) There are three methods for smoking alcohol in which air is pumped into a bottle of alcohol and then the fumes are inhaled into the lungs, you can also free base it and put it in a container with a metal base and put a fire to the base of the metal and inhale the fumes that way or you can pour your alcohol over dry ice and inhale the fumes. This then travels straight to the brain giving you an instant intoxication. It has the equivalent in most cases as taking six shots. (Beast, …show more content…

The alcohol is absorbed into the bloodstream much faster as it by passes all the vital organs. Problem with drinking by way of enema is the lower gastrointestinal tract does not have the same enzymes used to break down the alcohol as does the upper gastrointestinal tract. So it sets in the colon until it is absorbed by the liver. The alcohol is still very powerful and it can overpower the organ causing it to shut down. (Jacque Wilson, 2012) Teens and young adults may believe that injecting alcohol into other openings of the body can help remove the chances of a hangover. The truth is it can have an opposite effect. By passing all the organs that tell your body that it is in overload either by smoking it, performing enemas, or vodka eyeball shots is extremely bad because your body has no way of rejecting the alcohol that has been consumed in excess. Drinking hand sanitizer has the same affects as drinking alcohol. You can become tired; develop slurred speech, become non-responsive and even slip into a coma. (Hoberman, 2012) Doctors worry about long term effects that shots of vodka in the eye may have on the eyes in the long run. (Weise, 2010) Long term effects could be scarring and impaired vision to say the least.

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