Underage Drinking In today’s society, drinking has become the thing to do among many high school and college students. Most of these students are just looking for a way to fit in or become part of a group, but they do not realize all of the negative effects that drinking can have on them and the terrible things that can happen while under the influence of alcohol. It was found that by the end of high school, more than 75% of youths have consumed alcohol, and each year underage drinking results in 5000 deaths of those younger than 21 years (Jones, Feinberg & Cleveland, 2012). Underage drinking has always been a problem and will continue to be a problem until people start educating more students about it. Before students can be educated on
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To decrease the amount of underage drinking would it help if the drinking age was lowered from 21 to 18 years old? There is a group of 135 colleges and universities that have signed a statement called the “Amethyst Initiative”, which states that they want the drinking law to be reassessed by officials so that the drinking age could potentially be lowered to 18 years old. It was stated that so many different colleges, universities, and other small schools find themselves so exasperated with the amount of alcohol guzzled by undergraduates -- or more to the point, the trouble the undergraduates get into while inebriated -- that they now beseech lawmakers to “rethink 21,” (Main, 2009). Those schools think that if the drinking age was lowered it would decrease the amount of problems associated with underage …show more content…
As research has been done on the brain, information from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has shown the damage that can be done when people decide to drink before their brain is actually fully developed. Doctors have discovered that the brain continues to grow until a person is between the ages of 22 to 24, which are even older than the drinking age is right now. So even if a person waits till they are at the legal drinking age damage could still potentially be done on their brain for a couple years if their brain is still
To decrease the amount of underage drinking would it help if the drinking age was lowered from 21 to 18 years old? There is a group of 135 colleges and universities that have signed a statement called the “Amethyst Initiative”, which states that they want the drinking law to be reassessed by officials so that the drinking age could potentially be lowered to 18 years old. It was stated that so many different colleges, universities, and other small schools find themselves so exasperated with the amount of alcohol guzzled by undergraduates -- or more to the point, the trouble the undergraduates get into while inebriated -- that they now beseech lawmakers to “rethink 21,” (Main, 2009). Those schools think that if the drinking age was lowered it would decrease the amount of problems associated with underage …show more content…
As research has been done on the brain, information from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has shown the damage that can be done when people decide to drink before their brain is actually fully developed. Doctors have discovered that the brain continues to grow until a person is between the ages of 22 to 24, which are even older than the drinking age is right now. So even if a person waits till they are at the legal drinking age damage could still potentially be done on their brain for a couple years if their brain is still