ONLIME SOURCE #4

 

“Specific Page Title or Article Title”	Teenage Drug And Alcohol Abuse Information
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc)	unknown
Title of the Entire Website (not www. )	TEEN ZEEN
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given)	SAMHSA, NATSAP, and NIDA.
Date Page was Last Revised
Date You Read It	8 February 2012
<URL address> (ALL of it)	http://www.teenzeen.org/

FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded): 1. During a child's teenage years, those are the years that "the pressures to partcipate in drug and alcohol abuse are the highest."

2. Some research has shown that "27% of teenagers has misused some drug each month".

3, This website shows that "there are many reasons why people turn to drugs" but that there can be alternatives instead of taking drugs or using alcohol.

4. A lot of "teenagers fail to recognize the consequences" when they take drugs or alcohol, it can affect their life on a "cellular level" and even hurt their family.

5. Depending on how much the person is intoxicated on alcohol it can "take 3 days to 2 weeks" just to get it out of their system, which ca be very painful to the person.

Summary of Source (Three-Four Sentences of the Who, What, Where, Why, and How in your own words. NO OPINION):
This website brings people together so they can educate teenagers and parents on how to help themselves and their child. This can give people alternatives and inform them on what happens when they do take drugs or alcohol. This website has a lot of links on their page to help people out at home too.

Credibility of Source:
Author or Site: Who is the author? What training have they had? If there is no author, examine the site. What is the purpose of the site? Who funds the site? 
The purpose of this site is to educate people on drugs and alcohol and tries to help them see what can happen to teenagers if they do start to do something. There are sponsoring organizations that help with this site to get a better message to the world.


Attachment: Does the author or site have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative? For example, is it a cigarette business posting an article about the benefit of cigarettes, or is it a scientific community unaffiliated with the cigarette business? 
The author does not gain anything from writing this website so there does seem like there is no attachment to it.

Bias: Do you detect a bias (a favoring of either side) in the author's writing?
There does seem like there is a bias opinion being formed but the author only wants people to realize that there are negative effects to doing drugs and alcohol.

References: Does the author cite references in the writing? If so, do these add or take away from the credibility?
The author does not use any references so it does seem to take away from their credibilty.

Use of Source: How will you use this source in your project?

I plan to use this source in my paper and also in my volunteer hourse of making a pamphlet with the alternatives that this website gave me.