All of our young people do not engage in such behaviour. The young people I teach are well motivated, bright and an inspiration but even they drink far too much. Everyone knows that alcohol is a depressant. Regardless of the short-term buzz, its overnight effect leaves people feeling much worse than when they started. I worry about the huge increase in the consumption of alcohol. I do not minimise the harm caused by other drugs, but the drug that worries me most, that will devastate lives that would otherwise be full of prospects, is alcohol. I do not subscribe to a repressive view in respect of alcohol, but it is our responsibility, as a society, to put together a set of values and taboos that are appropriate to modern society. We must construct a society where it is a taboo for a young person to end up so drunk they cannot remember what they did. The link between youth suicide and alcohol is an area we must examine in depth.