Drunk driving in the United States

century the legal drinking age in some states was 18 to match the age requirements for joining the military and voting. During those years several studies listed by the American Journal of Preventative Medicine the amount of fatal alcohol car crashes increased drastically. As a result of increased crashes, something needed to be done to decrease the number of young deaths. MADD, short for Mothers Against Drunk Driving states that President Reagan passed a…

examples as to those terms, but there is one distinct term that sticks out to me. In 2012, 21-year-old rapper Ervin McKinness died in a car accident only minutes after he tweeted, “Drunk af (as fuck) going 120 drifting corners #FuckIt YOLO.” What is YOLO? Well in the year 2012, it was one of the top searches in the United States according to Google. There were over 36.6 million tweets including YOLO. It is an acronym for “You Only Live Once.” The thought behind the phrase was for a sense of…

American society raises a question concerning the appropriate minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) for an increasingly dynamic culture. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 punished states that allowed persons below age 21 to purchase and consume alcohol by withdrawing highway funding. Consequently by 1987, all 50 states had adopted an MLDA of 21. However despite current nationwide restriction, drinking remains commonplace among a high percentage of youth. Considering…

The United States is facing a drug epidemic within its borders. According to the website drugabuse.gov (n.d.), abuse of tobacco, alcohol, and especially illegal drugs has cost $700 billion dollars annually. Illicit drugs in particular are responsible for $11 billion in health care costs annually, and $193 billion in total costs which includes law enforcement, lost productivity, and healthcare. These growing costs and the recent heroin epidemic is prompting lawmakers to look into policy…

According to the authors of Introduction to Criminal Justice Fifteenth Edition, “The punishment and correction of criminals has changed considerably through the ages, reflecting custom, economic conditions, and religious and political ideals” (Siegal et al., 2016, p. 422). That is to say that the punishment of criminals has been around for a very long time. Similarly, the way we deal with those who commit crimes has changed significantly. Functionalism plays into how our society as a whole deals…

limit of fifty-five miles per hour was introduced as a temporary measure to conserve fuel. The government knew that if people were forced to drive slower their vehicles would use less gas. In 1975, this law was made permanent because it seemed like driving slower was safer. In 1972 and 1973, highway fatalities had reached an all-time high. It is estimated that nine thousand one hundred lives were saved in 1974 because of the reduced speed limit. This law stuck around until 1995, when it was…

to those who need help, control access to alcohol by age, location and time, raise taxes to affect prices and to pay for problems caused by consumption, and harm-reduction strategies to limit alcohol-related issues such as domestic violence and drunk driving. Since alcohol is an economic commodity, an increase in price can reduce the demand for it. To reduce alcohol related problems at the community level we should, identify priority areas for interventions, increase recognition of…

society as it is known today, beginning with forage and gathering experimentation to the drug labs of modernity. The interpretation of the results of various surveys and research over the past twenty years as been complied as a basis for the 2014 United Sates Drug Control Policy goals of prevention. With the intention to “avoid the consequences of drug use among youth” (2014, p. 7) and notably reduce the numbers of substance abusers in the long term. This encompasses a variety of drug categories…

alcohol unless one is 21 years of age or older. The United States is one of twelve countries that have a minimum drinking age of 21. To put this into perspective, this beautiful world is home to 190 recognized countries, it seems that either the rest of the world is missing out on something or the opposite is true. The question of whether or not to lower the national minimum legal drinking age has been debated nearly since it came to be in 1984. The states under the federal government's…

movement by the white majority's attempt to stop the change. Some effective events occurred, and some were not effective. How did the Civil Rights Movement change over time? Conflicts with African Americans and whites have been an issue in the United States for many centuries. It all started with the slave trade in the 16th to 19th century, when whites didn’t classify Africans as equal or even as humans. The treatment of them reflected how whites viewed Africans. After…