Government Essay – Should the drinking age remain at 21 years of age or be lowered?
How come 18 years old can die fighting for their country, but can’t legally drink until age 21?
The legal age of consumption, possession and buying of alcohol in the U.S today is 21 years of age. I am of the belief that it is a suitable age, as it is reasonably high. I have listed the three main reasons of my belief:
• Alcohol must be kept away from high schools and other places where young teens and other adolescent are daily. As alcohol has various negative impacts in the brain while it is growing.
• Alcohol culture can be compared to the one in Europe, where laws of legal age for alcohol consumption etc. in most countries are lower, and have a different …show more content…
The reason for this has been studied on animals by Susanne Hiller-Sturmhöfel, Ph.D., a senior science editor in “The Journal of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism”, and H. Scott Swartzwelder, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center. They have published a report about their study about “Alcohol’s Effects on the Adolescent Brain” that they have studied through animal models. Their research has proven my belief in keeping alcohol away from high schools; because the studies have shown that alcohols impact on adolescent brains can affect the remodeling of the brain that happens through in teenage years. According to Ms. Hiller-Strumhöffel and Mr. Swartzwelder, alcohol affects an adolescent brain by causing problems in the neural transmitters that are changing in teen years. In one’s teenage years the brain is under remodeling, one of the most known and important parts of this remodeling is also known as plasticity. Plasticity is when the brain discharges unused neural connections in the frontal lobe and strengthens used ones. Alcohol can impact on this process and cause various side effects later in
How come 18 years old can die fighting for their country, but can’t legally drink until age 21?
The legal age of consumption, possession and buying of alcohol in the U.S today is 21 years of age. I am of the belief that it is a suitable age, as it is reasonably high. I have listed the three main reasons of my belief:
• Alcohol must be kept away from high schools and other places where young teens and other adolescent are daily. As alcohol has various negative impacts in the brain while it is growing.
• Alcohol culture can be compared to the one in Europe, where laws of legal age for alcohol consumption etc. in most countries are lower, and have a different …show more content…
The reason for this has been studied on animals by Susanne Hiller-Sturmhöfel, Ph.D., a senior science editor in “The Journal of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism”, and H. Scott Swartzwelder, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center. They have published a report about their study about “Alcohol’s Effects on the Adolescent Brain” that they have studied through animal models. Their research has proven my belief in keeping alcohol away from high schools; because the studies have shown that alcohols impact on adolescent brains can affect the remodeling of the brain that happens through in teenage years. According to Ms. Hiller-Strumhöffel and Mr. Swartzwelder, alcohol affects an adolescent brain by causing problems in the neural transmitters that are changing in teen years. In one’s teenage years the brain is under remodeling, one of the most known and important parts of this remodeling is also known as plasticity. Plasticity is when the brain discharges unused neural connections in the frontal lobe and strengthens used ones. Alcohol can impact on this process and cause various side effects later in