Risky Business
Ryan Souza Period
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There has been a case of 6
teenagers reported at the ER for the abuse of drinking hand sanitizer. Teen now
days use house hold items as a drug or to get a buzz. For example drinking hand
sanitizer is the same as consuming about 6oz of straight alcohol. Since
drinking alcohol and smoking underage is illegal for teenagers they use
household items because they are legal and is now a problem today. Now teens
don’t only abuse hand sanitizer but they also abuse straight alcohol, cough
syrup, inhalants, mouthwash, and sniffing spray paint.
First,
one thing that is a con to this is that people think that this not a problem
and that it is just a joke and to be cool and funny. Well they don’t realize
that if you consume only 6oz of hand sanitizer that is the amount that will
send you to the hospital if consumption of more than 6oz that can be a cause to
death. People may think that this is not bad people are just trying to tell you
it’s bad for you to no do it, well by abusing these house hold item like
sniffing paint, or even drinking straight alcohol. They will cause you to have
brain damage and you cells would die one by one. Also the reason why people do
this is because they know that it’s not illegal and it easy to find and
purchase.
Secondly,
although there’s many ways to get a buzz, but this is a way to get a same buzz
and of smoking or drinking alcohol. Therefore there are easy to find and easy
to get like I said earlier kids at the sage of 12 can go and just walk into the
store for example longs and just grab alcohol to clean cuts , hand sanitizer to
clean hands, and cough syrup cause there sick. See there are many ways and
excuses to get these items and the cashiers would never know because they think
that they will use it for a good cause but when they find out that the kid was
showed at the ER then they worry.
Lastly,
why do teens use household items as another drug? Well teens use household
items as a drug because they want a buzz, therefore they can’t have that availability
to get cigarettes, beer, and also weed. Although they can get cheap things and
get a buzz to and to top that off its not illegal to drink hand sanitizer so
they do are if they ever got caught. So basically saying that if people keep on
doing this then it will turn out to be illegal then kids may be cautioned about
it but doesn’t mean that they would stop doing it.
In
conclusion teens now day look to get in to mysterious thing and try different things
just to fit in or maybe to look cool and think that there all bad, but at the
end of the day they don’t realize that what they’re doing can cause death and damage the brain severely. All in all abusing
house hold items isn’t such a great idea unless you’re ready to give you life’s
and dreams away. So just think twice before abusing household items.
