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associated with underage drinking ("APIS - Highlight on Underage Drinking"). Laws restricting access to alcohol by youth was enacted in the 20th century and by 1933 the 18th amendment held restrictions on consumption and possession of alcoholic beverages by youth ("APIS - Highlight on Underage Drinking"). At one point the drinking age was lowered from 21 to 18, however there was research that linked lower drinking ages to increased cases of alcohol-related car wrecks ("APIS - Highlight on…

The Drinking Age of Eighteen In the prohibition era, the MLDA, minimum legal drinking age, was set to twenty-one voluntarily in forty states. However, between the 1960s and 1970s, some states reduced their drinking age due to the new voting age and military enlistment (“MADD”). Many of the members of the society have contemplated on the issue of reducing the current drinking age of twenty-one to eighteen. This idea has been a controversial idea for years. The participants of this society have…

Thursday, January 5, 2017 I was on vehicle patrol traveling westbound on Water St passing the ferry terminal when I observed a vehicle traveling towards me that was very close to the center line of the road. I further observed that the vehicle was over the double yellow center line, so I steered to the side of the road and let the vehicle pass. I turned on the vehicle (a dark colored SUV) and had to accelerate to catch up the vehicle. As I was doing this I observed the vehicle again drive on…

a taxi or asking a sober friend for a ride is your best option. Driving yourself is the worst thing you could do. Also if you are hosting a party, try and make sure all of your guests have a safe plan home. You should offer lots of alcohol free beverages to encourage drivers to stay…

Let’s have fun they say… If you can serve your country, you should be able to drink they say…One drink can’t hurt they say… Easy up and have a good time they say… Once in our life time we will hear these words from people that trying to make you drink. The sad part is according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism every year over five thousand young people under the age of twenty-one die as a result from underage drinking; this includes 1,900 from death of motor vehicle…

Let’s Not Go That Low Alcohol consumptions kills nearly 88,000 people annually(NIAAA). These deaths are preventable by not being intoxicating while driving, or not excessively drinking and damaging your body. The drinking age in the United States today is 21 years of age or older, anyone younger than this is breaking the law with some exceptions. Although it has not always been set at this age. Alcohol has had issues with the government for decades. In the 1920’s the government banned the…

of this was going down. TJ was locked up on our baby girls first birthday. I remember that it was around this time that I began to use alcohol as a coping mechanism heavily. I was never much of a drinker. In fact I didn’t start consume alcoholic beverages until I was in my twenties. The particular kind of wine I was introduced to had a very pleasant taste. So, after that exposure, here and there, I would drink for the taste mostly and for social purposes: eventually it was to help me cope with…

INTRODUCTION Ever since alcohol was introduced into the general public, almost everyone wanted to get themselves a bottle or pack of their favorite beverage. Teenagers are so exception to this. The connection between adolescents and alcohol is a dangerous and complex one. Teenage drinking can be seen, to teens, as a rite of passage to adulthood. This is shown by studies that indicate that almost all teens receive their first drink of alcohol from their parents. Since drinking underage is…

The magical number eighteen is when one is considered an adult along with being eligible to vote, get married, join the military, and even purchase tobacco however an eighteen year old is not allowed to purchase or consume alcohol. Thirty years ago the legal drinking age in America was set at eighteen years old , and things regarding alcohol use were okay back then however the only problem was the casualties drunk driving caused. I believe the legal drinking age is past due and America is…

high-risk drinking of alcoholic beverages within the last week, from 32% to 31.6%.4 Although any new environment is exciting because of the opportunities it may bring, the transition that happens when one leaves home to living the “college life” also brings new pressures and great uncertainties.2 Transitioning from being home to being adults, many…