Drunk driving in the United States

better. One counter argument could be not knowing what is considered rape such as having sex with someone who is drunk so they can not give consent. The audience who this would be most effective for would be college students because they are the largest age group of victims so they can prevent it by informing their friends about it. The third best presentation was Teenage Drinking and Driving by Hayley Breitschuh. She made it very personal by adding the story about the crash at Stoney Creek. It…

your brain, heart, liver and pancreas. All around the world, alcohol has been a part of religious, professional, family and social life. In the United States, when people reach the age of 18, they are considered adults. They have the right to vote for…

more mature to be able to drink responsibly. A big topic that comes up with this is drunk driving deaths. Would this decrease the amount of deaths? If this were to change, it would be a drastic change in the lives of teens but in a positive or a negative way? It is known that “Although drinking by persons under the age of 21 is illegal, people aged 12 to 20 years drink 11% of all alcohol consumed in the United States.”(cdc.gov) Some of you may find this shocking! But what really are you…

Causes 25% of all car accidents. 50% of teens feel addicted. 32,885 driving fatalities in 2013. Sleep deprivation. Six times more likely to cause a car accident. All of these things have something in common and that is that it connects back to the use of cell phones. Some people say that the use of cell phones while driving is okay as long as the person is still paying attention to the road. However, the use of cellphones while driving is unsafe whether it is texting or talking on the phone.…

I 'm feeling low, she comes as no surprise / Turns me on with her love, takes me to paradise." This song teaches us about how cannabis can get us from a state of low to a state of high. The government forbids the usage of cannabis, but permits the usage of alcohol. On one side of the legal spectrum, nearly 88,000 people died from drunk driving every year. Including secondhand smoke from cigarettes, at least 480,000 people have died from smoking. No one has been reported an overdose death from…

deaths due to drinking and driving has reduced since the law…

There is many social problems in this world. Each problem affects the family, relationship, marriages, society, school, work and so on. The one that is a very common and that people tend to do a lot and the biggest issue is alcoholism. Alcoholism is an addiction to the consumption of alcoholic liquor or the mental illness and compulsive behavior resulting from alcohol dependency (dictionary.com). Many may think it is no big deal but they may not realize the changes, abuse or distrust in the…

individuals about the risk factors of substance abuse and aim to prevent recreation drug use before the desire to seek them out arises. The curriculum of anti- drug abuse culture in the classroom would focus on illustrating the negative consequences of drunk driving or drug overdose. By implementing this form of primary prevention, it aims to scare high school students from even attempting to succumb to peer pressure and abuse drugs. The strengths of using the social cognitive theory when…

The criminal justice system maintains different goals when attempting to correct deviant and illicit behavior. In accordance to the sentencing guidelines established by United States Sentencing Commission (2011), punitive sentences are to incorporate a purpose for the sentence. Criminal sentencing can be categorized into six areas with distinctive goals: general and specific deterrence, incapacitation, retributive, rehabilitative, and equity/restitution. The sentencing goals are not exclusive…

this are not responsible in their actions and their indulgence in alcohol consumption will only lead to more fatality rates amongst the population. This law is effective because it helps curb the amount of drinking by adolescents as well as those driving vehicles. Although, if more teens are educated about alcohol and parents teach their kids about alcohol the underage drinking will decrease in percentage, it has already gotten far too out of hand. Lowering the age will only further complicate…