How Teens Hide Alcohol Use
Top 13 “Covers” for a Night of Drinking
Parents anonymously contributed to this list. Below are the most common excuses or covers that our teens employ to hide alcohol use.
1. Ask to sleep out
2. Get picked up to go out instead of driving
3. Carry around a water bottle (vodka)
4. Plant alcohol in outside bushes or down in the basement before the party
5. Grape soda (when mixed, disguises all smells)
6. Fill up family liquor bottles with water so it looks like none is gone
7. Mints and gum
8. Say they must have the “flu” the next day
9. Mixed stories of what they did and where they went
10. Take heavy-looking purses/backpacks/duffels to a party
11. Leave to “get some air” or you see teens collecting money
12. Empty cans of Red Bull (they drink it and then substitute alcohol)
13. Find “spots” on ping pong table from beer pong
