This paper will address the use of alcohol in adolescence as a practice of self care. The findings stem from an investigation by Igenus Foundation with support from the Ministry of Health. At this historic moment in which society has not expectations of future to teenagers but many ailments, alcohol consumption during the nights of the weekend works as a practice of self-care to alleviate the deep emotional distress that environment give to adolescents. The "encounter" of this communication is in alcohol consumption as a practice self-care, although there is not a cure, it does offer improved symptomatic of emotional distress. In this hyper medicalised society, where every day we watch how teenagers discomforts are treat by biomedicine, understoods as diseases, and finally they are medicated, adolescents need another kind of response for treat their discomforts.