...Underage drinking is becoming more of a noticeable problem in society, not only with high school students, but also with younger generations. Drinking is all over the television, the radio, and talked about in schools, public places, etc. Alcohol advertisements are more and more appealing to younger generations. If our youth is educated at a younger age, if school policies were stricter, and if clubs and bars cracked down on underage drinking the problem would not be as serious. Youth should be well educated about consumption of alcohol well before middle school. By the time students reach middle school they are already exposed to alcohol. D.A.R.E, the program that teaches children about alcohol and its effects, should be taught in elementary school. According to underagedrinking.samhsa.gov, over 70% of eighth graders said alcohol is easy to get 30% of children age 12-14 get alcohol from a family member. These statistics show that drinking is very popular in middle school. It seems as though these kids already know what they are doing by eighth grade, so D.A.R.E classes must be taught at an earlier age. Another reason classes should be taught earlier is from my own personal experience. High school football games should be a memorable part of their high school career. Instead of innocent cheering and fun at the games the young students show up intoxicated with the smell of alcohol on their breath. Now a day, children find it harder to enjoy things sober. To support my own personal...
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...It In the article “Parents Notification Policies for Underage Drinking Evolve” by Jenna Johnson she discusses the pros and cons of informing a parent about their child’s alcohol-related actions that they condone at universities. Johnson seems to be on the fence throughout the whole article on whether she agrees or disagree with informing parents on every little detail in their child’s life pertaining to consuming or even just being around alcohol. In the article, Johnson quotes the vice president of student affairs at Virginia Tech, Edward Spencer, when he states “[s]tudents are more concerned about their parents being notified than they are of the legal consequences,” which is true because parents are more terrifying than any form of law enforcement (qtd. in Johnson). Regardless of how minor a situation is parents should be notified if their child is in any situation pertaining to alcohol. It is better for parents to know and be upset for a little while with their child than it is for the parents to not know and possibly not even have a child to be upset with because their child could be taken away from them. It is always best to expect the unexpected in any case regardless of the teenager trying to gain independence. The director of student conduct at the University of Maryland, John Zacker, said it best when he stated that “[t]here is no magical line here between May of their senior year of high school and college. When do they become a responsible adult?” because there...
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...fact that the U.S. expanded the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) to twenty-one in 1984, its rate of auto accidents and fatalities in the 1980s diminished not as much as that of European nations whose MLDA are lower than twenty-one. The diminishing in inebriated driving fatalities as a rate of aggregate activity fatalities in the U.S. does not relate to the MLDA. Since 1982, two years before the Uniform Drinking Age Act setting up a MLDA of twenty-one, a decrease of t intoxicated driving fatalities happened over all age gatherings and demographic classifications, and accordingly cannot be dependably ascribed to MLDA twenty-one. High rebelliousness with MLDA twenty-one advances general disregard and resistance with different zones of U.S. law. MLDA twenty-one urges...
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...Underage drinking is the most overlooked problem in the united states. Drinking and not being 21 or older, has caused more than 189,000 emergency room visits, about 190,000 have been in serious accidents involving drinking. More and more teens abuse alcohol each day. Growing is a big part of your life, but for some people growth for them stop at a very young age, when alcohol is involved at a young age. Drinking and not being of age can affect your body in many ways. It can cause health problems, and the development of your brain. If you're in a crash your body could be affected in that why physically like, being paralyzed, and or death. It could affect your brain in ways of not being able to process things. Such as people when they tell...
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...stores, bars, and clubs all want to make money and if they can get away with selling to underage teens then they will. My opinion along with a growing number of people across the country is questioning the reason of the 21 legal drinking ages. Throughout history, people have always wanted what they can’t have. Today, many teenagers experience different things in the world. Teens are always eager to try something different or new. One of the things that teenagers try is drinking alcohol. Around the 1980s many states changed the legal drinking age from 18 to 21. The theory behind this was, that if you increase the drinking age, people will drink more responsibly, because with age comes responsibility. Unfortunately, the people who made these laws did not consider that responsibility is something that comes from experience and teaching, not just age. There are a few different reasons why the drinking age should be dropped and why it would help the problem of alcohol abuse in younger people in America. Most of Europe has no drinking age and does not have the same types of problems that underage Americans...
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...Should teenagers be allowed to drink just because they turn eighteen and is now considered as an adults? No, they shouldnt even though they’re legal adults. According to Huffingtonpost.com, keeping legal drinking age at twenty one save 900 lives yearly. the drinking age should not be lowered to eighteen for many reasons. At eighteen, teenagers are not mentally mature. Unlike adults, teenagers drink just to fit in or just for the fun of it. Drinking at a young age is not healthy for teenagers at such a young age, because by the time they’re are twenty one they’re already alcoholics. When thinking about lowering the drinking age, you have to put the poor choices that would be made by an intoxicated teen in perspective. Such as, dropping out of school, laziness, violent behavior, and drunk driving. To no surprise, too much alcohol can slow down a person’s ability to think, react, and make decisions at the current moment. One important and deadly impact drinking can have on teenagers drinking at an early age is drunk driving. On average, two in three people will be involved in a drunk driving crash in their lifetime. According to huffingtonpost.com, every day in America another twenty eight people die as a result of drunk driving. If the drinking age is lowered to eighteen it would do nothing to decrease those numbers, it will only increase the death rate. In conclusion, we can clearly see that underage drinking is not a good thing, and should be avoided for the sake of lives. As...
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...ongoing issue for many years. Some believe it should be lowered to eighteen, as it was prior to The National Minimum Drinking Age Act that was passed on July 17th, 1984, and some believe it should stay at twentyone. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act made it impossible or persons under the age of twentyone to purchase alcohol. This Act did not ban those under the age to consume alcohol. There were only seven states, along with Washington D.C.; that put a complete ban on alcohol to be bought or consumed under twentyone. Those other six states are Alabama, Indiana, Kansas, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Vermont. As the consumption laws vary from state to state, some allow the consumption of alcohol under the supervision and consent of parents and others do not. Some states do not even have a law of consumption at all, which proves a small portion of my point. The legal drinking age in the United States should be lowered from twentyone to eighteen because at this age one is considered an adult, there would be a lower risk of underage drinking and if one can serve in the military then they shall be able to The first point is the fact that in the United States, one is considered a legal adult. Therefore, the purchasing of lottery tickets, scratch tickets and tobacco products is now legal. Tobacco products cause heart disease, which is the number one cause of death in America. Well sure, you are thinking that alcohol can cause the...
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...develop alcohol problems. The law said that the age 21 in every state we discovered for the 1st time in history that the younger students suddenly began drinking more than the older students. In some high schools in the United States, students have between the ages of 12 and up have consumed a little bit of alcohol. Another quote says, “The US minimum drinking age of 21 has been a topic of debate for decades.” For example, these means that they are still deciding on whether to lower it or to stay at the same age. People should have a vote on these, but there is politics that do not want the people to vote on their own beliefs. “Minimum Drinking Age” Gale Student Resources in Context. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Student Resources in Context Web.15 Mar2016.” Research and statistics have shown that people under the age of 21 are more susceptible to harmful effects of alcohol than the people over the age of 21 and older. They say that the alcohol is prohibited in the United States during the 1920 to 1933. Also that the prohibition of the manufacturing sale, and the transportation of alcohol during this period was illegal to some citizens. The quote is “As soon as youth are given legal access to alcohol there are immediate effects on the road.” These means that after they lower the drinking age is going to a be hard to keep the people away from buying alcohol and that’s not all kids underage are going to ask older students to buy them alcohol. (Drinking age-laws affect teen’s accident rate...
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...To support her argument Lang’s states that the amount of crashes occurred by alcohol has dropped since the drinking age was risen from eighteen to twenty-one. She gives references on how brain development is effected when a people is consuming alcohol before the brain is fully developed. Lang states “The impact of alcohol on a developing brain is far more acute than a mature one, as is the risk of addiction.” This would most likely convince the teenagers that started to drinking at young ages because they can be concern about their brain development which can affect their health. Lang then continues to discuss how when the drinking age was raise from eighteen to twenty-one, there was a decline in automobile crashes involving young people....
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...decisions about alcohol consumption."" says (Hayley). The alcoholic drinking age should be lowered to age eighteen because at that age you are responsible, mature, and it will help send the right message. Although many people agree that the age to consume alcohol should be lowered, many others argued for the opposite side of things. People believe that if children are able to drink alcohol legally they will want to start doing illicit drugs because they will try to find a thrill in something else since they won't find it in alcohol anymore. But that is merely an assumption rather than a fact. Kids will do whatever they want completely disregarding the laws or rules set for them. There have been many instances where an 18 year old has been caught drinking and has been let off with a warning by an officer of the law which shows that the law isn't enforced as much as it should be making it come off as not a big deal. There has always been controvery in the US about whether the drinking age be lowered or should stay at 21. (Smith) interviewed a woman named Shelly Mitchell, who recently turned 21, how she felt about finally being legal to drink. She quoted and said "it is not as exciting to drink anymore, I mean I still like to go out with my friends but the fun is all over, in college and highschool it was fun trying to get alcohol by using a fake ID." All of that could easily be changed with the drinking age being lowered to 18. Since the drinking age is currently set at 21, underage...
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...Paper Kendra V. Castro Maldonado CJA/374 Juvenile System and Process July 29, 2014 Prof. Victor Candelario- Vega Crime Causation and Diversion Paper As a prerequisite for the course, we were to analyze two different programs for juvenile offenders, this could be to prevent, to intervene or divert juveniles into committing any crime. On this paper, you will find two-intervention programs practiced in Puerto Rico, in a wish are focused to a certain type of crime or accountability. Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws. The program EUDL is focused on the prohibition of selling alcoholic beverages to minors, and it also focuses on the purchase and consumption of alcoholic beverages by minors. OJJDP's EUDL program supports and enhances efforts by States and local jurisdictions to reduce the availability of alcohol to minors. The program encourages close partnerships between law enforcement agencies and community groups involved in preventing and intervening in underage drinking. OJJDP also offers comprehensive training and technical assistance to guide States and communities in their efforts. Underage drinking contributes to youth violence, traffic injuries and fatalities, crime, suicide, high-risk sex, and a host of other problems. In 2005, underage drinkers (defined as individuals younger than21 years old) consumed 15 percent of all alcohol sold in the United States (Miller, 2006). To address this serious problem, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's (OJJDP's)...
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...The current legal drinking age of the United States is 21. Should it be lowered to 18? The current legal drinking age of the United States is 21. Should it be lowered to 18? I think the current legal age in the United States is 21 and I find it absurd, but in my view i think it should be 18 because if you look at it I’m old enough to go to war but not old enough to drink. If you look at it I am dying for my country at the age of 18 but yet I can’t buy a drink? In my opinion it is absurd. The controversy between drinking and going to war is well known around the United States. Many people will agree with me that the drinking age should be lowered to 18. Other people will disagree with my agreement they will say it’s better at the age of 21 because that’s when more people are more responsible. I think that is some bull because any person can be responsible some can be but others can’t. I honestly think that it should be lowered to the age of 18. They say that drinking alcohol can lower stress and it can put you in a better mood. Some people can take advantage and abuse the power of drinking alcohol and it can cause death if you drink way too much. There is less chances of people getting alcohol poisoning in a party where nowadays students buy drinks for everyone in the room. Some can say that it is still wrong for people who are 18 years old could abuse the drinking habit. I still find this absurd because I can die at age 18 and not buy a drink. Kids in college buy alcohol...
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...One of the lead killers for minors every year, alcohol can ruin development and start addiction for many. Each year, thousands of lives are changed forever just off decisions that are later regretted. Alcohol is ruining lives and is acting as a drug for many and many who get addicted are underage, and there needs to be fix for this. Although the situation on underage drinking is slowly becoming better, there are still many lives being ruined every year. Increasing the drinking age would improve the situation of underage drinking because it would prevent damage, increase punishment for drinking underage, and decrease the risk of alcohol related fatalities. First of all, Alcohol is abused by many who are underage, but there are many ways to fix this. Drinking below the age limit is mostly caused from peer pressure, curiousity, or just to be abused as a drug. In my opinion, the best way to counter underage drinking is the increase punishment and make alcohol checks a lot stricter, because at the moment fake ID’s are very easy to obtain. But the things that go on behind the scenes are hard to control, possibily increasing punishment for those who are caught is the first step to change. Overall, the amount of minors drinking has gone down over the last 3 decades, but continuing to limit the damage of underage driking is very important. To continue, the overall health and development affects as a result of alcohol is scary. in 2017 over 5,000 deaths were caused by minors drinking...
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...The debate about whether or not to lower the drinking age has been going on for years now with people on both sides having strong points. The side with the stronger side of the argument, in my opinion, would have to be yes, we should lower the drinking age to either eighteen or nineteen years old. I will be going over four points on why the drinking age should be lowered and they are as follows: it would teach responsible drinking behaviors and stop irresponsible college drinking, if we tried to raise the drinking age we would have another prohibition-like era which we all know how that turned out, there are fewer traffic accidents in countries with the drinking age of eighteen, and the morals around it, because if we can send an eighteen year old to Iraq then why can’t he make his own decision and have a drink? Lowering the drinking age to eighteen or nineteen would help the irresponsible drinking and help educate youth to know moderation when it comes to alcohol. “According to procon.org they state that if youth between the age of eighteen and twenty were allowed to drink in controlled environments such as bars, restaurants, social events, and other licensed locations would allow them to learn moderation and not resort to binge drinking in other areas such as fraternity houses or house parties.” (Should) Many college students are drinking as a pass-time and we can’t seem to do anything about it that is just it is. If we lower the drinking age, however, it will not only show...
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...this alcohol is consumed in the form of binge drinking. According to the U.S. Surgeon General, about 5,000 kids under 21 die every year as a result of underage drinking – from crashes, homicides, and suicides. Teens that drink also are at risk for a long list of other injuries and potential life-long alcohol abuse. Reducing underage drinking can reduce drinking-related harm This problem is important to not only me as a parent but also to you as a driver on the street. Underage drinking is a rapidly growing problem that causes homicides, suicides and public intoxication. We need to put into play harsher punishments for underage drinking and aiding in underage drinking in order to prevent this problem from spreading. We can enforce harsher laws by increasing the punishment for underage drinking, increasing the punishment for aiding in underage drinking and making underage drinkers take mandatory class of the effects of underage drinking. Underage drinking causes many lives to be ruined. According to the CDC in 2008 over 190,000 visits were made to the emergency room as a cause of underage drinking related...
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