Essay On Minimum Drinking Age

Furthermore, the minimum drinking age is decided by evaluating the reasons or need to regulate alcohol. Cheadle et al. informs social scientists that early drinking among adolescents elevates the risk for problem drinking in their article because stressors (a factor of adolescent drinking) decrease positive attitudes and increase negative attitudes in the adolescent’s life. The study gathers data from North American Indigenous adolescents to determine the causes of adolescent drinking and how it correlates with problem drinking. Cheadle explains that “stressors (e.g., perceived discrimination) directly and indirectly influenced early and problem alcohol use by decreasing positive school attitudes while increasing feelings of anger and perceived delinquent friendships.” Stressors maintain dominance over adolescent drinking. By reducing the stressors and increasing the support for these adolescents, early drinking will decrease. Furthermore, as the social stressors and fundamental …show more content…
inform health professionals of the impact of a minimum drinking age on hospital-based care for alcohol-related conditions in their article because the minimum legal drinking age legislation is a central element in youth alcohol control policies. The study gathers data on inpatient alcohol-related conditions and emergency records at hospitals in Ontario, Canada and compared them to the patients’ age. Callaghan concludes, “Young adults gaining legal access to alcohol incur increases in hospital-based care for a range of serious alcohol-related conditions.” This evidence is important because, as their access to alcohol increases, adolescents are exhibiting an overall increase in hospital-based, alcohol-related conditions. There is potential correlation between this data on hospital-based, alcohol-related conditions and overall risky behavior with alcohol among adolescents. Thus, adolescents use alcohol in a manner that increases the chance of