Binge drinking can be dangerous no matter what your age, but for teens, the risks increase. Since the teenage brain is still growing and developing, it is more easily damaged by large amounts of alcohol; binge drinking can be the perfect way to destroy developing brain cells.  

Almost two-thirds of teens admit to binge drinking. That's two out of every three adolescents who is downing 5 or more drinks in a row (the definition of binge drinking in the US ). Many people assume that binge drinking means drinking over a long period of time, but it also refers to tossing back several drinks in a short amount of time. Teens who binge drink tend to have a lot of problems due to the amount of alcohol in their system.  

Here are some of the more common issues binge drinkers face:

• Alcohol poisoning: Not everyone who binge drinks gets alcohol poisoning, but it affects teens more than anyone else. Alcohol is rapidly absorbed through the stomach lining and drinking too much too fast can be fatal as many have found out.
• Depression in adulthood: A recent study reveals that an alcohol-filled adolescence could lead to depression in adult life.
• Lack of concentration in school: This often leads to bad grades or even dropping out, something that will affect the quality of jobs a person can get and their perception of the world.
• Lack of judgment: Unfortunately, many teens that are binge drinking make other bad decisions, like getting behind the wheel of a car or sleeping with someone without protection. In best case scenarios, they have an embarrassing story to live down, worst case, they end up dead.  
• Loss of friends: Alcohol binges can drastically change someone's personality and their friends will drift away. We all need support and a real friend is far more useful than a bottle of tequila.
• Memory loss and blackouts: This is quite common during drinking episodes, but it can happen afterward too, when the person is sober.
• Suicide: Drinking boosts the suicide rate nearly 3 times by interacting with existing conditions like depression and making them worse . . . so much so that the teen feels the only way out is to kill themselves.
• Trouble with the law: Underage drinking can not only cause personal problems, it can also get teens in trouble with the police. Drinking and driving can get your license suspended or worse.

While binge drinking isn't a good idea at any time, there are certain circumstances where it is far more lethal. It's easy to get caught up in chugging beer at a party or taking a dare from a friend to down an entire bottle of Schnapps, but these are exactly what kill teen binge drinkers every year. Most teens who die from an alcohol overdose are labeled as an accidental death or a choking victim (usually on their own vomit), but the truth is far worse. They drank so much alcohol that it actually stopped their organs from working and they passed out and died. Many of them received absolutely no help because their friends assumed it was normal to pass out, when in reality, they were slowly dying.  

It's important to get help if you suspect someone is binge drinking. It could save their life.

This is happening world wide.

One out of 10 children ages 12 and 13 uses alcohol at least once a month.

In a single year, 522 children under age 14 were arrested for driving while intoxicated, (113 of them were under 10 years old).

70 percent of all teenagers drink alcohol.

60 percent of all teen deaths in car accidents are alcohol-related.  

On average, it is estimated that more than 3,000 teenagers die every year as a result of injuries obtained during vehicular accidents attributed to driving under the influence.

Several states have lowered the legally drunk Blood Alcohol limit to .08 from .10.

There's nothing cute or funny about an intoxicated person getting behind the wheel.

Not when someone with a Blood Alcohol level of .15 (about four to seven drinks per hour for the average teen) is 380 times more likely to die in a single vehicle crash than a sober person.

Teen Slang for Alcohol -Booze, Sauce, Brews, Brewskis, Hooch, Hard Stuff, Juice   

Australia - Young teens drinking themselves to death

Britain - A nation of bad parents: Britain's youngsters amongst world's worst for drinking, smoking and teenage pregnancy, warns the OECD 

California- Teen's Death Exposes Binge Drinking Dangers

Colorado - Popular Steamboat Teen Had Been Drinking Before Death

Denmark- Binge Drinking Among Teens Sparks Heated Debate in Denmark

Iowa- Dying High: Teens in the ER - New federal data indicates a 20% increase in drug-related ER visits for teens under the age of 17.

Massachusetts - Teen drinking, lying, dying and what parents can do

New Zealand - "Shock and frustration" at teen drink deaths

Washington - Friends Write On Body Of Teen Dying After Drinking Game   

 

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Fight club videos are aplenty in the market. You can find all sorts, starting from protected boxing fights, kick boxing to one to one bare fisted fights.

But one very alarming prospect is the number of teen videos, some as young as 11 to 12 years old fight clubs, swearing and kicking each other like mad! Yes these types of illegal and violent teen fight clubs are around everywhere, all going heatedly behind the backs of their parents and authorities. Police forces have in fact arrested many of the teens involved in illegal fight clubs, and the videos that they have collected through these arrests show how violent they can get and how much they crave these types of ugly fights. Videos show youngsters punching each other with bare knuckles outside the school yards. Like the movies, they even name their real-life fights videos, passing them one after another in secrecy.  

These extreme sports have cropped up every where and its fast catching up on the teens.  

Authorities in Alaska, New Jersey, Texas and Washington state have caught several teen fight rings operating for fun and yes, for profit too. These illegal, violent, not to mention bloody bouts pit boys and girls to have fist to fist combat. Well this is not all. These staged fights are recorded by the ring leaders with video or cell cameras, and then peddle homemade DVDs on the Internet or posted on popular teen websites. All these violent videos are no fake ones; they are real. The videos comprise of bare-knuckle boxing matches to rough gang assaults where the teens stomp powerless victims who are clearly not ready to fight.  

They are very savage and callous, and the lack of morality is rampant!  

Well not only this, many of these teens involved in the illegal underground fight clubs are not juvenile criminals but simple suburban high school kids. Teens organize the fights, at times handing out fliers advertising them. The young audience pays the admission fee and starts the fight, videotaping all these. And yes, all these are happening not only in the poor neighborhoods but everywhere.  

These kids are not content with just the violent video games; no they long for the REAL fights!  

These fantasies of violence and danger to life are offered by the fight clubs, and here they can become a star overnight through the secretive video!  

Many of these violent videos are taped even in broad day light where punching, kicking and stomping each other vigorously are the aim. These teens are also even more excited as its illegal and the criminal side to it makes them go for these fight club even more without realizing the consequences. In these videos you will see plenty of teens cheering on the fighters, snapping pictures, with scattered schoolbooks on the lawns. Some are even taped knocked unconscious, injured youngsters dragged out leaving bloody smears on curbs.  

Some also pay teens a few bucks to fight or attack others which are all filmed eagerly. These violent and destructive videos of teens engaged in fight clubs are ever on the rise, and the bloody scenes in the movies are brought to reality.   

And though most won't admit it unless they have to, more teen boys are being treated after cringe-worthy attacks in which they're slapped or punched in the groin, sometimes causing serious harm requiring surgery.  

An MSNBC poll of 100 urologists, conducted by Truth On Call, showed that 30 percent of the doctors had seen or treated pre-teen and teen boys for testicular trauma in the past year, including severe injuries caused by so-called "sack-tapping," in which boys ambush others at school and elsewhere.

Bruises, blood clots, testicular torsion - in which the organ twists up to 360 degrees - and, more rarely, testicular rupture, all are consequences of blunt force trauma to the testicles, including injuries caused by close-range punches.  

Nearly 8,000 boys and young men ages 10 to 20 were treated for pubic region injuries in the nation's emergency rooms last year, according to estimates from the Consumer Product Safety Commission.  

That's up from about 7,300 injuries in 2008 and about 5,500 in 2007.  

A growing number have been caused by so-called games known variously as "sack-tapping," "nut tag," or "Roshambo," after a 1998 episode of the animated series "South Park" that popularized the painful practice. Most young victims don't want to admit they've participated, willingly or not. It's hard to believe someone would think it's fun to see how much pain someone could take from something like this. Doctors and anti-bullying advocates say the recent rise in viral media outlets means that behaviors that were once confined to a certain school or region now spread quickly through online videos and news stories. Dozens of home videos posted to YouTube, for instance, chronicle groin-punch incidents. Publicizing the behavior can exacerbate the problem.

No matter what playful names are used to describe this, it is sexual assault with the potential to do serious harm.  

Parents, school officials and community members must become aware of the problem so that they can stop it.

You need to tell children, "Don't let anybody hit you there; if they do, let me know."

Signs of testicular injury include severe pain, nausea, vomiting and difficulty walking. Pain can last days or weeks without treatment. Testicular torsion and testicular rupture must be treated immediately, within hours, to have any hope of salvaging the organ.  

When you look at everything in our society, when you look at the reality TV shows, you seen an escalation of nastiness. Our kids are only a reflection of our society.

British Columbia - "Punching" Game Leaves Teen Dead in Terrace.

Illinois - A 13-year-old central Illinois student died after a group of boys were engaged in a so-called "punching game

Minnesota - Student suffers amputation after embarrassing school assault

New Jersey- 'Teen Mom' Jenelle Evans set up by Brittany Maggard who was arrested again.

New Jersey - Judge frees 18-year-old chest-puncher after Burlco teen's death blamed on weak heart

Science Daily - Teenage Violence Linked To Later Domestic Violence

Winnipeg - Teen athlete dies after punch in bar

Unfortunately, videos of young people engaging in violence is all too common.

And who are they learning it from? 

Aaron Gray gets sucker punched in the groin by Royal Ivey

Eric LaManna takes a punch in the groin as part of a bet he made

Herb Pope of Seton Hall punches a Darko Cohadarevic of Texas Tech in the "lower groin" twice