Drinking

because of social situations. They typically drink alcoholic beverages at parties and sometimes because of peer pressure. The alcohol or drugs make their reactions slower than normal making them more prone to fatal car crashes. The best way to avoid drinking and driving is not to drink at all. It’s illegal since teens are underage. This isn’t the case though, so the best way to avoid hurting yourself or others is to have cab fare on you. The other options are to have a designated driver, or call…

It's alarming that binge drinking is so prevalent in the college campus environment and is often used as a means of stress and anxiety relief. Although alcohol is considered a depressant, it also has the capability to amplify a person's emotional state. Once alcohol is consumed, it gets absorbed by the bloodstream and later enters the cerebral cortex--the part of the brain responsible for thought and action, and disrupts…

usually represents adulthood. However, the drinking age is twenty- one due to the Mothers Against Drunk Driving group. “In 1984, Congress passed the Uniform Drinking Age Act, which required states to have a minimum drinking age of 21 for all types of alcohol consumption if they wanted to receive federal highway monies” (Main). This causing the states to be persuaded into changing their drinking age. Because of drunk driving, which can happen at any age, the drinking age was raised from eighteen…

of youth drinking excessively strikes most parents hearts when their own children often hang out late at night and worrying that the children will mix with the wrong company and walk into the wrong path. Some young adults abuse the liquor as it would be able to cure their stress in school or even relationship problem which nowadays the young adults between aged 18 years old to 35 years old would normally abuse this liquor for. This essay will explore the three main reasons of Binge Drinking,…

The reason drinking saltwater is bad for you is because “it causes dehydration.” says Livescience in their article Why Can’t We Drink Salt Water? Anyways that is 1 of many reasons why it is bad for you. “Another reason is that consuming too little or too much salt wreaks havoc in our bodies.” says Howstuffworks in their article What if you drink saltwater? Other reasons digesting salt water range from the shrinkage of cells to the shrinkage of your blood veins, both can cause fatal illnesses…

Finding efficient methods of heavy metals from a contaminated water source is crucial for achieving clean drinking water. Heavy metals tend to accumulate in living organisms and cause health disorders and diseases3, 7, 11. Unlike organic contaminates, heavy metals do not degrade and therefore are not easily removed from the water system. For this reason, most large-scale water treatment facilities rely on coagulation to chemically precipitate metals from the source water and by sieve…

consume an alcoholic beverage, it doesn’t make sense. Having the drinking age to 21 doesn’t stop young teenagers. Of course a nice and easy invention called a fake identification exist and they work wonders. The legal drinking age should be lowered to 18 because you 're considered an adult, less under aged drinking, and less alcohol issues. Drinking can be a serious issue here in the United States,…

eleven countries to have the drinking age at twenty-one? Even though at age eighteen your old enough to buy cigarettes but still not old enough to drink alcohol. This is right. There so many good reason the United States should keep the drinking age at twenty-one, such as, it reduces traffic crashes, it is bad for teenagers, and it could increase the number of people with alcohol problems. When others states lowered the drinking age in the U.S., the underage drinking was worse such as, there…

The Alcohol Drinking Age Should be Increased The idea of raising the alcoholic drinking age protects young people. Indeed they are still incapable of accepting responsibilities included in the drinking of alcohol. In fact, according to DO SOMETHING.org, 5,000 people under the age of twenty-one die each year from alcohol-related car crashes, homicides, suicides, alcohol poisoning, and other injuries such as falls, burns, and drowning. In contrast, lowering the alcoholic drinking age from 21 to…

Underage Drinking: the Never Ending Problem Timothy is a sixteen-year old sophomore. Timmy had never drunk before until last night. He went to a party with his friends and there was alcohol there. He was not planning to drink but his friends kept pressuring him, telling him it was safe and that everything was going to be okay. Timmy began to drink, got very drunk, and decided it would be okay to drive himself home. The nest morning Timmy awoke in the hospital to find that he had gotten into a…