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Lowering the Drinking Age The day kids turn 18 they are no longer kids, they are adults. As adults there are so many things you can do. From voting to buying a house, but there is one thing 18 year olds can’t do… drink. The three topics I will be talking about in this paper will be traffic related accidents, sexual dangers, and college campus dangers. There are many stories about teenagers drinking underage. Even if the drinking age dropped to eighteen from twenty-one do you think that…

There were certain behaviors that Toren exhibited that I did not find to be very unusually in a campus culture. The main one being underage drinking, it is an unspoken rule that it is okay to drink before we are twenty-on. A lot of Toren’s drinking occurred in his dorm room, on the rule that what happens behind closed-door stays behind closed doors. “I drank throughout the next two days until I had return from Brazil back to my site and we parted ways (pg. 177).” He had frequently black outs,…

Underage Drinking: the Reality Underage drinking--many do not consider it a problem, unless they know one of the 88,000 people who die each year from excessive alcohol use (National Council). A party may be considered merely a social event, but for many teens the night will not end well. Instead of fun, teens experience high blood pressure, brain growth interference, kidney and liver failure, alcohol poisoning, and possibly death. Underage drinking could be more actively prevented; teenagers…

“We will never have to work again. “ “How is that possible?” “Well I have a bottle of whiskey and it’s full to the brim“ “And beers? “ “Yeah man what you think I am“ “A low achiever drunk” and he laughed deeply. “Fuck you and cheers to me. “ Sips his first dram of whiskey and makes a grin “It’s been a fuck long time man.” “Damn right! it does feel good and some kind of weird and familiar. Are we just doing the same shit again? “ “Well no, yeah fuck I do not care. That’s what I want to do.…

After consuming alcohol, the brain exhibits poor judgement and poor body mechanics. Injuries by traffic and other kind of accidents are more prone to happen. I interviewed a man who claimed that he had his first alcoholic beverage at 11 years old. For nearly, 30 years of his life he was controlled by this drug. He would like to remain anonymous, but explained to me the various effects of alcohol that had happened to him. He discussed physical health effects and told me that…

The movement and eventual ban (justified by the Constitution) of the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcohol is called Prohibition. Alcohol is classified as a depressant, a substance that slows down the functions of the body and calms the nerves. Therefore, consumption of alcohol alters the mind’s abilities to make rational decisions. In the early portion of the twentieth century Prohibition was a nationwide movement to ban alcohol. The nation was very divided on…

Despite measures to restrict the age limit on the consumption of alcohol, it is still a prevalent problem in many communities. Communities are saturated with residential treatment programs, self-help groups, and Alcoholics Anonymous, however; binge drinking, motor vehicle accidents, and social problems are still a concern. Society has created a platform in which alcohol is used as a mascot to entice individuals to go overboard with alcohol consumption. At one time, alcoholism was viewed as a…

Overview Drunk Driving has been a problem in America almost since cars have been invented. One of the first cars ever built in America was in Massachusetts in 1893, but by 1897 a 27 year old taxi driver by the name of George Smith was arrested for the first ever DUI after crashing his cab into a building (history). In recent years, unfortunately, driving under the influence has a remained a huge problem in the United States, one third of all fatal car crashes involve an intoxicated driver or…

The effect of underage drinking on America. By the time 8th grade is over, most young adults have drank alcohol before. Most have all gone to a party and known what is like to be drunk at such young age. Parents seem not to know what their child is up to once they leave the house. What’s going to happen the day their child never comes home all because their child got in a car wreck for being drunk. Underage drinking is most likely to kill young people than all illegal drugs combined. Apart…

Studies have shown that alcoholism is the third leading preventable cause of death in the United States, with approximately eighty eight thousand deaths per year. A Swedish physician named Magnus Huss invented the term alcoholism in 1849, before that the word used to describe the uncontrollable need to drink alcohol was “dipsomania”. Even from back then, the causes of alcoholism have been examined over and over and it has come to the conclusion that there is no known exact cause. It has been…