This conference deals with the consumption (and abuse) of alcohol among adolescents. Alcohol is an extremely important problem for adolescents. There have been many times in my life when I was offered some type of alcohol, but I refused. To avoid being exposed to alcohol and drunk people, I don't attend parties, I doubt I will even after I turn twenty-one. Unfortunately, not many minors I know respect these rules, and I highly doubt that a high percentage of teenagers do. The conference would talk about the many negative effects of alcohol, especially on adolescents. I would also like to talk about the many misconceptions about the “positive” effects of alcohol, how alcohol is glamorized in the media, and why such glamorization is bad. It would consist of a series of skits dramatizing various issues such as drunk driving, being forced to drink and the bad choices one makes when intoxicated. There would also be a questionnaire that would ask students' age, whether they have had an alcoholic beverage and similar questions. I believe that high school freshmen (mostly around 14 years old) are the perfect demographic to gear this conference towards, as that is the age at which many will begin to be directly exposed to (and offered) alcohol. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2006), each year approximately 5,000 Americans under the age of 21 die from underage drinking; which includes approximately 1,900 traffic accidents, 1,600 homicides, 300 resulting from suicide and hundreds of other injuries such as falls, burns and drowning. The average age of first alcohol use is 14 (http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/AA67/AA67.pdf), which is why I think...... half of the paper. ....008). One thing that no prevention program could control, however, is adolescents' impulsiveness and attention-seeking, which is one of the most natural causes of drunk driving (Pedersen & McCarthy, 2008). Some limitations I might encounter during my lecture are the distorted opinions of some students, especially those who drink often and those who never plan to drink in their entire life. I would then administer a questionnaire at the beginning of the lesson to assess the general level of familiarity with alcohol in the room and target the lesson to the students in that particular class. As you can see, alcohol is an extremely important issue for teenagers. It would be extremely helpful for high school freshmen to educate them about this issue to prevent them from suffering (or causing) premature deaths or becoming alcoholics as adults.