...and Andrea were driving in, pushing them into the path of a semi-truck. Both Eric and Andrea were killed.” “Why we’re here” October 1, 2014. Underage drinking is a worldwide epidemic that has various impacts on millions of people every day. Every day there a thousands of different cases having to deal with underage drinking, whether it is effecting the consumer emotionally or physically. Emotionally, underage drinking can bring out many different feelings. Many of the times it brings out anger which leads them to hurting themselves or hurting those around them. Physically it harms many of the human organs; the heart, pancreas, lungs, kidneys, and the brain are some to keep in mind....
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...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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...Underage Drinking at Home: Big Problem Rabia Badar University of Phoenix COMM/215 December 10, 2012 Carol J. Amato, M.A. Should minors be allowed to drink alcoholic beverages in their homes with their parents’ consent? Underage drinking is a big problem throughout United States. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 required all states to raise their minimum purchase and public possession of alcohol age to 21. This Act helped decreased the cause of deaths of minors because minors didn’t purchase it. This law only prohibited the minors from purchasing it but not from drinking it. The president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, for example, accused the university heads of "not doing their homework" on the relationship between the drinking age and traffic fatalities (Tetelbaum 2009). The university was accused they said the deaths only occur between the ages of 18 – 20 but actually the deaths were occurring 16years or younger due to underage drinking. They believe underage drinking shouldn’t be allowed even if it’s at home. What are we really teaching our kids? This is something I talk about all the time at school with my kids and encourage parents to discuss with their kids. The more we discuss this topic with our generation they more they will understand the importance of underage drinking. Underage drinking costs Americans taxpayers approximately 61.9 billion dollars annually and in 2000, only 71 million was spent on prevention. Whereas 1.8 billion dollars...
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...that the pharmacological effects of alcohol and other chemical substances most immediately interfere with optimal brain functioning. Continued use of alcohol and other drugs over time may keep youth from advancing to more complex stages of thinking and social interaction. In addition to this there are several neurological impacts that underage drinking can have on adolescents. Psychoactive substances such as alcohol produce pleasurable feelings and may diminish stress and emotional pain. These chemicals can turn on the brain’s reward system, which makes people want to repeat the use of substances to obtain the same feelings. Eventually, substance use can alter the structure and chemical makeup of the brain, leading to brain disorders. Some additional health risks that underage drinking incurs includes risky sexual behavior, alcohol poisoning and additional mental health disorders. The impacts alcohol induces on sexual behavior includes that Youth who drink alcohol more commonly engage in sexual intercourse when drinking, have sexual experiences at an earlier age, have sex with multiple partners, engage in unprotected or unplanned sex, experience unexpected pregnancies, have babies with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum disorders, and contract sexually transmitted diseases and...
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...NSR-427V-O104 Community Teaching Experience Introduction and Epidemiological Rationale Based off the evaluation of Green County, Wisconsin and the interview that took place with Sherri Holmes, who is a registered nurse from Wisconsin, the lesson plan chosen is going to be done on underage drinking and the rate of binge drinking experienced by Wisconsin High School students. The proposed group to teach to is high school students. In 2007, 32% of Wisconsin high school students reported binge use of alcohol, while the prevalence of binge declined among high school students nationally from 1997 to 2007, there was no consistent decline in Wisconsin (Wisconsin Department of Health Services, 2008). As a whole Wisconsin has higher rates compared to the United States for underage drinking for youth ages 12 to 20 (Wisconsin Department of Health Services, 2008). In 2007 Wisconsin had the third highest rate of binge drinking (Wisconsin Epidemiology Profile on Alcohol and Consumption, 2008). According to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (2014) the state has the highest rate of drunk driving and there were more than 40,000 convictions for drunk driving in 2013, and in 2009 the number of alcohol related crashes resulting in fatalities were 238 people and injured 4,000 people. Out of all of the fatal traffic accidents in 2009 for Wisconsin, 45 percent of them were alcohol related and 40 percent of all fatal motorcycle crashes were also alcohol-related as well (Wisconsin...
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...mentally and with little experience we sometimes end up doing things which later on catch up to us and ruin our perfect future. Underage drinking for example is one of the big problems that teenagers get dragged into. Each year, approximately 5,000 young people under the age of 21 die as a result of underage drinking. About 1900 deaths are caused because of vehicle crashes, 1600 are caused of homicides, 300 from suicide and hundreds more die from other injuries such as falling, burning, drowning etc. Even with all these accidents and problems underage drinking still continues to be a widespread problem. According to data from the 2005 Monitoring the Future (MTF) study, three-fourths of 12th graders, more than two-thirds of 10th graders, and about two in every five 8th graders have consumed alcohol. Teenagers not knowing or having the experience of consuming alcohol tend to drink intensively usually consuming four to five drinks at one time. People who start drinking at young age usually become alcoholics by the time they reach adulthood. Drinking causes teenagers to fail at school and other aspects of life, it becomes a habit and once your in its extremely hard to get out. Many questions are asked to why teenagers want to drink, but all it is is the urge to have want you can’t have. Since drinking is illegal teenagers find it to be thrilling and exciting when consuming it. Many believe that if there was no drinking age at all that maybe underage drinking would not be such a huge...
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...Does the current drinking age really stop underage drinking? Each state in the union has set their drinking age at twenty-one since 1984. Ever since then the underage drinking has not stopped. The drinking legal age of alcohol in the United States of America should be eliminated and replaced with a purchasing age of twenty-one and a non-existent drinking or consumption age in order to allow younger citizens to drink responsibly under the guidance of a someone responsible. To start with, several States believe that the United States has problems labeling alcohol levels in alcoholic drinks. Many in the Illinois legislature have determined those alcoholic drinks such as malt liquor, which include sugar need to include a label stating alcohol levels. (Blackston, M. 2009, Spirited debate). If the Illinois legislatures can take steps to better inform the American people to drink more responsibly, than every other state can join. Many...
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...bottles. I took an Axis and only had a few sips, not liking the taste. I knew I shouldn’t have been in the environment I was in, with so much alcohol and alcohol drinking going on. I knew it wasn’t allowed on campus, yet continued to stay in the room and talk to people and listen to music. At one point during the night I noticed many people leaving the room, not realizing immediately that a resident assistant was at the door. My first instinct was to stay. I had no thought of leaving, and knew I had to take responsibility for my actions. I spoke with the RA giving him my name and telling him my ID number having left my card in my dorm room. I helped count the alcohol cans in the room and proceeded to help bring them out to the dumpster. I was very nervous as to if my parents would find out because I know that they would be extremely disappointed, possibly even pulling me out of St. Edward’s and making me go to school closer to home. So I am extremely fortunate that they did not find out and I do not plan on doing anything to get in trouble again. If I am ever put in this situation again I would leave immediately if I found out there would be drinking. I realize now how strict St. Edward’s is about drinking on campus and I will never even risk getting caught again. I always warn people if I hear that they plan on drinking on campus, having learned from this process I have had to go through for my actions. I did some research in the process of my Alcohol Education and I found that...
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...Each year, approximately 5,000 young people under the age of twenty-one die as a result of underage drinking; this includes approximately 1,900 deaths from motor vehicle crashes, 1,600 as a result of homicides, 300 from suicide, and as well as hundreds from other injuries (NIAA). In today’s society we are presented with a real epidemic, underage drinking. As children grow older they are brought into different environments where they are presented with different obligations. Children bring alcohol into their lives to be cool or to fit in, but dying of alcohol poisoning leaves young people to fit into which group? Teenagers begin drinking as early as middle school or even sooner. (NLM) It is said that teens who drink are more likely to be victims of violent crimes. They are more likely to have serious problems in school. They are more likely to be involved in drinking and driving accidents. Children who start drinking young are also more likely to develop problems with alcohol later in life. With such a huge epidemic in underage drinking, why would law makers want to lower the legal age? Throughout the United States, most seventeen year olds receive their drivers’ license. Seventeen year olds are still in high school and still testing different waters; some of the “water” is alcohol. It is hard to believe, but 70 percent of all teenagers drink alcohol, and 60 percent of all teen deaths in car accidents are alcohol-related (Eagle). Most parents want to believe that when they...
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...rampant across the majority of the different realms worldwide. Underage drinking is when anyone under the minimum legal drinking age drinks alcohol. Aside from being illegal, it is a widespread public health problem that poses much risk attracting many developing adolescents and teens. The use of alcohol is a worldwide concern resulting to millions of death, including hundreds of thousands of young lives lost. Indicators revealed that underage drinking seem to be on the rise among the adolescents. Statistics showed the assessment of the five-year trend of under-age drinking where out of 73 responding countries, 71 percent indicated an increase, 4 percent a decrease, 8 percent were stable and 16 percent showed inconclusive trends (World Health Organization [WHO] Global Survey on Alcohol and Health, 2011). According to the World Health Report (2002) alcohol is responsible for 4 percent of total diseases burden and 3.2 percent of all premature deaths. It is associated with more than 60 types of diseases and other health conditions, including mental disorders and suicide, several types of cancer, and other non- communicable diseases such as cirrhosis, as well as intentional and unintentional injuries. It is very dangerous and harmful for the health and well-being of people especially the young ones who are considered the future nation-builders. Though progress and movements have been being made, underage drinking remains a persistent problem. In the Philippines, alcohol is widely...
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...Do you know someone who began drinking before age 13 has a 45% of becoming alcohol dependent compared to only 7% change if they wait until they are 21? .Alcohol kill more young people than any drugs, Even if it does not kill them it can cause long term damage to their developing brains this can turn into an addiction. Until their early twenties the brain still growing. There are many causes of underage drinking such as peer pressure, lack of parents guidance and genetic factors. Some teenagers these days, have already drink at least three or four times before their 14 Birthday. Some of them are very good kids a home, or knows consequences about underage drink. Why they do it? some people asked if they have knowledge about underage drinking. Peer pressure, this phrase is very powerful in this new generation of young kids. Peer pressure will make you do stuff that you do not want to do it at first, but in the end you will be able to do it, but why? because you want to fit in a group and be cool like them in your mind will be fine to take a risk even if you knew you could lose everything around you....
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...you will not be allowed to drink alcohol and if you do you may face military and criminal charges. This is what we tell our soliders that are under the age of twenty-one. While most of us agree that the legal drinking age should be twenty-one plus there should be exceptions for our military personal who we expect to protect our country and die if needed. The minimum age to join the military in the United States in seventeen years old with parental consent or eighteen years old without parental consent. If we consider this in greater detail we can surmise that at age eighteen you are old enough to make the choice to join the military and put your life at risk. You are also given a great responsibility of protecting our country. For those that do not enlist in the military their responsibilities are typically much less. While there are certain to be exceptions, most young adults between the age of eighteen and twenty-one are concerned with school, work, friends and dating. Their level of maturity and understanding on life is not fully developed and they are just starting to explore the world on their own. Prior to 1984 some states did allow people to buy and consume alcohol at the age of eighteen. However the federal government has passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984. This act withholds revenue from states that allow the purchase of alcohol by anyone under the age of 21. However you may be surprised that some states do allow consumption of alcohol by young...
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...For my argumentation paper I plan on discussing the drinking limit and why I feel it should be lowered to 18 instead on 21. There has been an ongoing controversy in the United States on whether the drinking age should be lowered to 18, like most of the world, or if it should stay at 21. Underage drinking has been a major controversial issue for years; yet why is it not under control? Teenagers are continuing to buy alcohol with fake identification cards, get into bars, and drink illegally. As a teen, I have proof that these things are going on not only in college but in high school as well. There are a lot of factors that come together to why the drinking age should be lowered to 18. The most obvious reason is too many people are drinking before they are 21. Liquor 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...
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...Janet Wu BUS 424 10/14/2014 Should Underage Drinking be allowed for Educational Purposes? Governor Brown recently passed the Assembly Bill No.1989; otherwise known as the “Sip-and-Spit” bill. This law will take effect on January 1, 2015 allows college students between the ages of 18 and 21 who are enrolled in a wine-making or beer-brewing course to be able to drink alcohol and spit it out afterwards. There is existing law that forbids a person under 21 years old to have alcohol but this law would exempt specific students within California’s public institutions who are enrolled in a viticulture or enology program to fully experience what they have made as part of their curriculum. The main concern opposing this bill is that minors under 21 are not allowed to consume alcohol and by allowing students to do so at an earlier age may encourage underage drinking. Despite the concerns, this law received wide recognition among supporters such as the California Association of Winegrape Growers, California Craft Brewers Association, Family Winemakers of California, University of California and California State University. This bill has also been approved by the faculty in California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo to align with our motto of “Learn by Doing”. Cal Poly and UC Davis are major supporters behind this law simply because of this will allow students to have the same educational opportunities as students from others states (that exempt students from the...
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...Should the legal drinking age be reduced to 18 years of age? When a citizen of the United States reaches the age of 18, they receive all their rights of a legal adult, from voting too marriage. They receive all of them, however, except for the right to legally purchase and consume alcohol. In this essay I will discuss why the drinking age of 21 should be lowered to 18 due to country wide disobedience of the law, How most developed countries already have their legal drinking age reduced to 18, and how it is counterproductive to society to give people some of their rights at 18 but not all of them. I choose these due to most parents and their kids drinking before 21 regardless the law is in place, how places like Europe have their drinking age set to 18, and how kids do not fully feel like an adult and use drinking as a way to be irresponsible, when they should see drinking alcohol as one of their rights....
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