Is Enough Being Done to Fight Against Underage Drinking?
Underage drinking has been an major topic for many years, and for almost 40 years most states voluntarily set their drinking age law at 21 ( ). However, 29 states, such as Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana, and Nebraska just to name a few, decided to lower their drinking age to accommodate certain individuals, such as individuals that were enlisted in the military ( ). The actions of the 29 states that decided to lower their drinking age came with consequences, because the number of drunk driving crashes, and other alcohol-related injuries started to rise. This was also happening in states that bordered them too, because teens under 21 started traveling …show more content…
After society noticed the impact of underage drinking President Reagan made an active law named Uniform Drinking Age Act, which mandated all states to adopt 21 as the mandatory drinking age. By 1988, all states changed their drinking age to 21 years of age to support the effort of keeping teens safe. Therefore, this essay will show that enough is being done to fight against underage drinking. By discussing the use of law restrictions, public programs, and help from parents are all things that are used to fight against underage drinking. Each state may enforce their law differently to address underage drinking, but for this essay the District of Columbia and Maryland will be the primary focus. The District of Columbia have numerous laws in place to fight against underage drinking, such as charging underage teens that try to buy alcohol using a fake or false identification with a criminal offense ( ). The District of Columbia also states that an individual under the age of 21 blood alcohol concentration should be 0.00, because any type of …show more content…
For years there have been programs that were placed to help underage individuals within their schools and communities to fight against underage drinking. One program is called the Strategic Prevention Framework and it was started by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (Nargiso, 2012). The SPF prevention program is used to help allocate funding to over five hundred communities, which is also used to combat underage drinking. Forty years again another organization was started to fight alcohol abuse and alcoholism named the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAA), but recently the organization started paying attention to underage drinking as well (Nargiso, 2012). NIAA research focuses on genetic and environmental influences that plays a role in developing prevention programs, screenings, and treatments, which will all reduce to amount of issues that follows underage drinking. All of the programs or organizations mentioned above help educate individuals in a classroom setting, in communities, parental programs, and even media coverage to help raise awareness, which will help underage individuals gain refusal skills to use with the friends and
Underage drinking has been an major topic for many years, and for almost 40 years most states voluntarily set their drinking age law at 21 ( ). However, 29 states, such as Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana, and Nebraska just to name a few, decided to lower their drinking age to accommodate certain individuals, such as individuals that were enlisted in the military ( ). The actions of the 29 states that decided to lower their drinking age came with consequences, because the number of drunk driving crashes, and other alcohol-related injuries started to rise. This was also happening in states that bordered them too, because teens under 21 started traveling …show more content…
After society noticed the impact of underage drinking President Reagan made an active law named Uniform Drinking Age Act, which mandated all states to adopt 21 as the mandatory drinking age. By 1988, all states changed their drinking age to 21 years of age to support the effort of keeping teens safe. Therefore, this essay will show that enough is being done to fight against underage drinking. By discussing the use of law restrictions, public programs, and help from parents are all things that are used to fight against underage drinking. Each state may enforce their law differently to address underage drinking, but for this essay the District of Columbia and Maryland will be the primary focus. The District of Columbia have numerous laws in place to fight against underage drinking, such as charging underage teens that try to buy alcohol using a fake or false identification with a criminal offense ( ). The District of Columbia also states that an individual under the age of 21 blood alcohol concentration should be 0.00, because any type of …show more content…
For years there have been programs that were placed to help underage individuals within their schools and communities to fight against underage drinking. One program is called the Strategic Prevention Framework and it was started by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (Nargiso, 2012). The SPF prevention program is used to help allocate funding to over five hundred communities, which is also used to combat underage drinking. Forty years again another organization was started to fight alcohol abuse and alcoholism named the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAA), but recently the organization started paying attention to underage drinking as well (Nargiso, 2012). NIAA research focuses on genetic and environmental influences that plays a role in developing prevention programs, screenings, and treatments, which will all reduce to amount of issues that follows underage drinking. All of the programs or organizations mentioned above help educate individuals in a classroom setting, in communities, parental programs, and even media coverage to help raise awareness, which will help underage individuals gain refusal skills to use with the friends and