Amethyst Initiative

are significantly less confident to perform responsible drinking behaviors during their next drinking episode and significantly lower intention to perform responsible drinking behaviors the next time they consume alcohol. That is where the Amethyst Initiative come…

influence of alcohol (McCartt et al). No doubt, alcohol is dangerous. It both directly and indirectly affects the well-being of everyone. Therefore, America needs a set of rules in place that keep everyone safe. Choose Responsibility, Amethyst Initiative, concerned parents, and MLDA 21 supporters are in conflict. Each view believes they are fighting against the dangers of alcohol. All claim they increase and ensure safety. However, there can only be one correct course of action. Now is the…

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…

should rightly inform us on the duties of a conscientiously drinking. For example, in 2008, an organization composed of presidents of colleges and universities put forth the Amethyst Initiative (Daniloff, Caleb). Robert A. Brown, Boston University president, is one of the members of this group (Daniloff, Caleb). “The Amethyst Initiative proposes that by lowering the drinking age, colleges will be better able to generate awareness of the risk of excessive alcohol use,” Brown states (Daniloff,…

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Toni Marie Hall Riddle English 111 February 10,2016 To be or not to be: Lowering the drinking age to 18 The notion of legal age of drinking refers to the age when it is legal to consume or purchase alcoholic drinks. There are myriad factors that contribute to the determination of drinking age across many countries. These many range from socio-cultural factors, religious factors to economic factors; all of these determinants help the governments across various countries in deciding the…

Hello, class, I am Dr. Amelie Scotsman and I will be your teacher this semester. I am a behavioral psychologist and have taught students for the last 16 years. I got my degree at New York University, but you all probably don’t care about any of this. Let’s get to the point. This semester we will focus on controversial social issues. For our first lecture, we are going to discuss lowering the drinking age. Think about this, all of you kids can vote, drive a car, fight for our country, and even…

before he or she is allowed to drink. Since the MDLA was set, according to Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), underage drinking, and subsequent problem drinking, has dropped significantly (Support 21). On the other hand, supporters of the Amethyst Initiative, a document calling…

In 1984 the legal drinking age in the United States was raised to 21. The United States should lower the drinking age to 18 because the law may not be protecting teens and others. Although the drinking age was raised to protect teens, “it may have made drinking even more appealing to teens, whose brains naturally seek out risk more than adult brains do without considering what the consequences might be”. Some people argue that teens brain aren't developed enough to handle drinking, but…

For many years, there has been growing controversy on whether or not the drinking age in the United States should be lowered from 21 years old to 18 years old. Underage drinking has been a major problem in our country for many years now, and alcohol is the most widely used substance among America’s youth. According to the 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, “ 8.7 million Americans between ages 12-20 report current alcohol consumption; which represents 23% of this age group for whom…