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            European teens and college students have an opportunity to drink more often and at an earlier age and therefore better manage their.
             drinking habits. In the United States, teens and college students have much less of an opportunity to drink, so when they do they tend to.
             over-drink and not take proper responsibility for their actions while intoxicated. In the United States in 1995 among drivers 16-20 in fatal.
             car crashes 12.7 percent had a blood alcohol content of 0.1 percent, according to the Statistical Abstract of the United States. This amount.
             is the legal limit among a group not even old enough to drink. Had United States children grown up with alcohol as they do in Europe it.
             would be less likely for them to abuse the privilege. The over -drinking of United States college students is also due to the lack of legal.
             incentive. College students in the United States know if and when they get caught the consequences are small, such as community service.
             or a warning. .
             According to Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), less than one third of parents with a student in 10th grade give their children a clear.
             message about alcohol. Imagine how that number dwindles as students enter college. If we as society continue to teach values there.
             would be little need for laws restricting or prohibiting alcohol. In 1919 Amendment 18 to the United States Constitution was passed.
             prohibiting alcohol consumption, sale and possession. This amendment simply created a black market for alcohol with no regulation. In a.
             sense prohibiting alcohol to teenagers and college students is doing the same thing, creating a black market for alcohol with no regulation.
             The Amendment was repealed in 1933 because there was no use for it; alcohol was still being sold, consumed and possessed. If this way.
             of dealing with alcohol didn't work for adults in the early 1900s it surely isn't going to work for the younger generation growing up in the.


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1. The Legal Drinking Age

... in younger people. When teenagers drink their main goal is to get drunk, and the faster the better. This is what leads to binge drinking. Binge drinking puts thousands of teenagers in hospitals every year. Dr. Mary Claire O'Brien, an emergency medicine physician in North Carolina has seen teenagers with blood ... law is a sign of immaturity. Most people under the age of 21 are still vulnerable to peer pressure, therefore they can be easily persuaded into drinking. Alcohol is seen as something not allowed and young people get a sort of thrill from breaking the law when they drink. The mat...

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2. APA Essay - Lowering the Drinking Age

... to age 18, making it more consistent with other rights and duties that American citizens obtain as legal adults. Arguments supporting the legal drinking age being set at 21 include: letting the brain fully develop before exposing it to damaging effects of excessive alcohol use, keeping those aged ... alarming numbers on the country's highways. ( Shults, Ruth, et al. "Reviews of Evidence Regarding Interventions to Reduce Alcohol-Impaired Driving." (Should the drinking age be lowered from 21 to a younger age? (2014). Both sides in this debate consist of committed groups of people througho...

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3. Lowering the Legal Drinking Age to 18

... those years. All we did is we pushed it further underground." (Mark Beckner, the chief of police in Boulder, Colo.) The problem with drinking without anyone knowing, like a parent, is that it can be very dangerous and someone could get seriously injured from alcohol poisoning, or go completely ... supervision. Young adults at the age of eighteen generally go to college, where, in most cases, there is a lot of underage drinking. Perhaps if the drinking age was eighteen, those underage drinkers would not have to hide, and be controlled by the police and therefore, stay much safer. National...

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4. Underage Drinking and it's Consequences

... Additionally, AIM provides information stating that it is illegal to drink and purchase alcohol in Libya because of the Muslim culture. Research continually provides evidence of the differences among underage drinking rules and regulations globally. According to Doweiko, alcoholism was rampant among youth in England during the early 1800's (pg 283,2002). Looking at the differences between other countries one ... Youth states that adolescents are between 4 and 10 times to become alcoholic more likely than adolescents from families with no alcoholic adults. Research has also been done on u...

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5. Underage Drinking

... member of the Board of Trustees at the University of North Carolina, and Ruth Ings, a professor at Indiana University, believe that lowering the drinking age would solve many problems occurring at colleges today (Hochberg). Along with these leaders are the KU Senators at Kansas University who are trying ... to gain support from universities across the country for their resolution to lower the drinking at from 21 to 18 (Miller). In agreement with all of these people and groups are the underage students of these universities ... to be treated for "excessive alcohol consumption." Also a p...

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6. National Drinking Age

... year olds are responsible for 11% of the nation's annual alcohol consumption. The study also found "underagers tend to drink irresponsibly, possibly because drinking laws discourage adult supervision"(Conant 2). Because it is illegal for those under 21 years old to buy and consume alcohol, it is more likely ... drink alcohol with dinner and as part of normal social events. To combat the growing sense of the irrationalism of the 21-year-old national drinking age, the U.S. Department of Justice released a study comparing tenth graders here in the U.S. with tenth graders in European countr...

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7. National drinking age

... and the change in public opinion, the 18th amendment was in 1933 repealed by the 21st amendment. What followed was a compromise with the lingering temperance movement and the modern drinking age was established. "The political failure of general Prohibition meant that American adults would increasingly focus justifications for alcohol policy less on the perils of drunkenness and more on ... being at a party where alcohol is served; and taxi services that give free rides to prevent drunk driving during the holidays ban young people from using their services. "In short, drinking age laws ...

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8. The Minimum Drinking Age in the United States

... age of "adulthood " (Archer). Young adults are expected to behave responsibly and explore their liberties with maturity. For this reason, the minimum drinking age in the United States should be lowered to age eighteen. The incredible responsibility and and sense of maturity that accompanies the rights granted ... are underage to consume alcohol. Many underage drinkers view the opportunities where alcohol is present as their "only chance " to experience drinking. Hence, the phenomenon called "binge drinking." This phenomenon is largely associated with teenage or underage drinkers: "In fa...

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9. binge drinking

... shot of alcohol (straight or mixed), or one glass of wine. Students who drank regularly in high school tend to engage in binge drinking during college. Also, "being white, involved in athletics, or a resident of a fraternity or sorority made it more likely that a student would be a ... binge drinker." While binge drinking is not seen on all campuses, Tulane University does have its share of alcohol problems. Tulane University currently has thirteen fraternities and six sororities, ... herself in danger from alcohol at least once; but again, she does not feel that she should abstain from...

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10. The Minimum Drinking Age Should Be Lowered

... other, and older cultures, who have these problems need to be tried. Groups such as Italians, Greeks, Chinese, and Jews, who have few drinking related problems, tend to share some common characteristics. Alcohol is neither seen as a poison or a magic potent, there is little or no social ... because it flies in the face of nature? College students will continue to drink, no matter what the consequences. It is indisputable that a drinking age of 21 has had harmful effects on campus life. It has soured relations between students and police. As usual, when police officers must ... and it has...

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  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

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