Teens Should Take a Lesson From Drunken Monkeys, Study Shows

"What a terrible waste it is to lose one's mind, or not to have a mind is being terribly wasteful." -- Dan Quayle

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ya and a great example of this is our own diplomats,they have to be drunk to pass a lot the garbage that's being handed down to.."we the people"

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And what's a bunch of Hippos doing on Campus binge drinking for ?

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I'm a 16 year old highschool student myself, and I'd like to say that I will never use alcohal to get drunk or anything, even after legal age. It's more of a religous thing that I'd never even sip the stuff, but I'd prefer to sit in a room with an open window with insense to clear my thoughts and drift off. While opening my eyes every few winks to watch the inscence stick burn of course. My parents even bought me some authentic Indian ones for my birthday this year, which was on the twelth of May. Yay for me! Anyway, I belive that your mind will always be there with you, and helps to discern harsh reality from a beautiful one, and that you must always learn to cherish it forever. I learned that the hard way after many made me an outcast this year in school. I have barely anyone to speak to, and my own siblings tell me to shut up at times. I even do really nice things at school for other people like buy treats (with my own money) and create games on Fridays to help stimulate my English honors class. Who are real jerks, I suppose, as an extremely lifelong trusted source told me of the disgusting things they said about me, so terrible, she couldn't even repeat them. I was shocked. I used my own money to buy cookies, candy, ect., and tried to be as nice as I can be, unlike other girls who only act. They're born beautiful, and people look at me and say that I'm my mother's sister. If they already know I'm a teen, they just say "I think I saw your mother once". It's really depressing, my life. I'm hideous, and all the other girls appear beautiful and curse, and are yet so popular. It's even lead me to the point that I was a phsycic vampire. People say I look scary, evevm if I smile. I was voted most serious in chorus class, by vote. I even beat the director! How did I beat him?! In highschool, serious= we all hate you and your attitude. But I try my hardest to be a wonderful person. To be, not act, but to be, unlike everyone else. But God gave me a second chance, and gave me some of my focus and bright outlook again. Which is why I say this. DON'T RUIN YOUR MINDS! You're never going to know the cruel world, full of phonies and unfair games all around in this park we call Life. There's always strangers with candy, which is the majority. All people who ever truly compliment me are older than me, teachers, my parents, and random people who seem to only hope that I don't grow up as a serial killer. I'm a good person, and I would never do such a thing, but it seems people think me of that because of my life story and the sad appearence I have. I wish I could trust others when they said I was actually beautiful or even cute, but it seems they only pity me. The chance of me being truly being called beautiful by anyone is detremented by the chance that I will be struck by lightening and live to tell about how my chance at being beautiful against being struck by lightening and living was true. Whatever you do, be a beautiful human being, ful of compassion, but remain cautious, like a benevolent Machevallian. Don't risk your finest glass, the focus and brightness of your mind.

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haha can you imagine drunk monkeys?? :) lol
Oh and yeeeaahh.... Honestly, lots of teenagers do drink.... but not a lot of them binge drink, maybe they have like once, but thats typically it. And I do agree that it is dumb to screw up your mind by binge drinking but its whatever I guess, cuz you cant really stop people from doing what they are gunna do you know?

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I beg to differ with this study. I am 72 years old. In my teens it was common for me and my friends to binge drink. We didn't know how to pace ourselves. (Fortunately we didn't drive or we might have killed ourselves.) I'm not advocating drinking for teens but my point is that none of us suffered any brain loss as adults. We went on to become lawyers, corporate executives, teachers, IT consultants, etc. My own memory is as sharp as ever to the consternation of my children and grandchildren who can't put anything over on me. Again I emphasize that I don't think teens should drink. It could too easily lead to greater problems.

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I think it's disgusting that they got animals drunk to prove something we already know....heavy drinking can be harmful in many ways including memory loss. The government must have given them a grant to fund this useless study.

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I'm not a huge animal rights soapboxer but--they got monkeys drunk and caused likely irreversible brain damage to prove common sense? How can that be legal or science?

Common sense tells us that teens do things because they aren't supposed to do them (like the girl who sneaks out to see "that" boy, the one her parents forbade her from seeing). Perhaps if we enacted more sensible drinking age laws we would see binge drinking disappear. Remember, rates of alcohol consumption plummet between the ages of 20 and 22. Why's that? It became legal to drink.

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Ok so, the studdy says binge drinking is bad, so constantly drinking is ok right? LOL. I think most ppl. will agree that teens and alcohol don't mix.

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Just how did they manage to get the monkeys drunk?? Jello shots??

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Tom Henderson: Exactly how much research did you do before writing this article? I worked under Dr. Mandyam as an intern and therefore know a lot about her research (and that's my first point, she's a woman, contrary to your article's information).
Secondly, they didn't just get a bunch of monkeys drunk off booze, which is a highly questionable substance to use in a legitimate scientific study since its alcohol concentration is hardly reliable. No, the researchers used ethanol, or pure alcohol.
So, please, present an article that comes straight from the source and contains accurate factual information.

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