Drinking

In a recent commentary article written by Henry Wechsler, he discusses the topic of lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18 years old. Wechsler states many studies and research of previous attempts that have been made and the different ways that they have been unsuccessful. For example, in 1970 some states alcohol consumption laws had been changed to 18 years of age but when states lowered their drinking age restriction, the amount of alcohol-involved traffic accidents increased (1). After…

states lowered their drinking age to 18. In 1984 Congress passed the Uniform Drinking Age Act, this required states to have a MLDA of 21 in order to receive money to fix highways (Main 35). The governments wish for states to raise the drinking age was because of increased driving under the influence in young adults. Now in the 2000’s underage drinking, binge drinking, and alcohol related deaths are occurring more often (“Binge”). These incidences are more apparent…

alcohol related incidents. Drinking can also cause people to make poor decisions and very risky behavior. Drinking before the brain (the temporal lobe) is fully developed affects the judgement making process, I believe that the national drinking age needs to be raised from twenty one to twenty five; however the drinking age shouldn’t legally stay at twenty one. Many people believe that drinking before the age of 25 doesn’t harm them whatsoever, but the effects are huge. Drinking before twenty…

1.0 Intervention Setting The Australian National Binge Drinking Campaign ‘Don’t Turn a Night out into a Nightmare’ was first launched on 21st November 2008. The primary target audience for the campaign is young people aged 15 to 25, with the secondary target being the parents of these young adults. The campaign is an integral aspect of the National Binge Drinking Strategy and is a program that formed partnerships with sporting groups and non-government organisations and are displayed in a…

Underage Drinking In the UNITED STATES Because underaged drinking is so commond in the united states what ways can it Effect our kids in the next generations.And what ways are our government trying to crack down on the under aged drinking they’ll make the parents pay and the child has to do 60 hours of community service.In the last decade the population of under aged drinking has went down but its stilll at a high for the united states for our young adults.Before the age of correct age…

Minimum Legal Drinking Age There are many arguments on whether the minimum legal drinking age should be lowered from twenty-one to a younger age such as eighteen. According to “Minimum Legal Drinking Age Pros and Cons” (2014), “all 50 US states have set their minimum drinking age to 21 although exceptions do exist on a state-by-state basis for consumption at home, under adult supervision, for medical necessity, and other reasons” (p.1). If the minimum legal drinking age is lowered to a younger…

do drink are also more likely to binge drink. “Binge drinking is defined as having five or more drinks on a given occasion” (“Higher drinking age” 1). Young adults who binge drink are putting their health at risk. The law is forcing curious under aged adults to experiment with alcohol under no supervision. Something needs to be changed about the law. Some will argue that the higher drinking age has saved lives on the road, even though the drinking age has nothing to do with drunken driving…

Lowering the Drinking Age, Raising the Fatalities “Compared with a wide range of other programs and efforts to reduce drinking among teenagers, increasing the legal age for purchase and consumption of alcohol to 21 appears to have been the most successful effort to date,” stated doctors Alexander Wagenaar and Traci Toomey in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol. In 1920, alcohol was forbidden nationwide. This meant that manufacturing and selling alcohol was illegal. This period, more commonly…

Grasgreen (2013) on our campus most of the drinking games are occurring within the Greek Fraternity Housing. While offering solutions for the entire student population is important, it is also important to intentionally target members of these Greek letter organizations. I will provide three recommended interventions and tie them directly to the previously described concepts. The first proposed solution is to educate our students on the effects of alcohol and drinking games through an online…

Why has the United State not already lowered the drinking age? European countries have a drinking age of sixteen years old, while the United States has a drinking age of twenty-one years old. So why can’t the United States lower the drinking age? It’s not as though, people are going around the law to get alcohol. People in the United States have been introduced to alcohol at least one time in their life time before they hit the age of twenty-one. Many people in the United States have consumed…