Teenage Drinking

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The actions being taken are creating sobriety checkpoints, ignition interlocks, mass media campaigns, car services, school-based instructional programs, and the upcoming innovations in self-driving cars. Sobriety checkpoints can help in a major way because they can prevent drunk driving accidents from occurring and it can also lead people to not drink or take a car service. Ignition interlocks can also be a big help because if the person in the driver’s seat has over a certain BAC then the car won’t start. Mass media campaigns also work because they show the consequences of driving drunk and the possibilities that can happen. I remember seeing mass media campaign commercials of people who drove drunk and killed someone and they ended up being jailed for years. This strongly advised me at a young age to not drive drunk when I get to the legal age of consumption. School programs can also solve this issue because it can give the students an emotional and first hand experience that will strongly advise them to not drink and drive. The thing that I think contributes most in the area that I live, to prevent drunk driving, is “Uber” and “Lyft.” Most of the time people know if they’re going to go out and drink, and if you plan to take an “Uber” or “Lyft” then you can go out and drink without having to drive home. These car services are also extremely easy to use because you can get a ride with the click of a button. With all these alternatives to drunk driving, this is a perfect time to lower the drinking age. I would lower it even further than 18, but the main reason why I didn’t decide to make it lower is because of brain development in young teenagers. These are the main reasons why the drinking age should be lowered to age 18. If people still decide to drive drunk with all these alternatives, then they’re just “stupid”, and people

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Every 51 minutes in America, someone is killed in a drunk driving crash. A dangerous issue facing society today is the problem of teen drinking and driving. Currently an approximate of 10,076 people die in drunk driving crashes per year. If positive progress to ceasing this act does not happen, teens will continue to drink and drive putting everybody on the road at risk. Teens who drink and drive put everyone on the road at risk, causing serious crashes that could be preventable.

Underage drinking. It’s all the rage in this generation. Youths everywhere are subjecting themselves to excessive amounts of alcohol at illegal ages, and the consequences are evident all around us. Every year over 5,000 kids under the age of 21 die from alcohol abuse, 1 in 5 10th graders will resort to binge drinking, and alcohol continues to damage developing teen brains (Let’s Stop Teen Drinking Tragedies). While they may not be seen in night clubs in bars, people between the ages of 18 and 21 are subjecting themselves to unsafe usage of alcohol in private or at high school parties simply because it’s “fun” and “reckless”. So how do we as a country end this monumental epidemic? Some believe that lowering the drinking age from 21 could benefit society and decrease the amount of underage “binge drinking” in uncontrolled, private environments (Top Pro & Con Arguments). However, the MLDA (minimum legal drinking age) is extremely important to the safety of not only youths, but everyone. Imagine the number of traffic fatalities that would occur due to drunken teenagers after high school parties. It is true that teenagers already drink illegally, but if it was legal then the number of high school students drinking and driving would sky rocket due to the fact that they would no longer be in secret. I believe that lowering the legal drinking age would be incredibly destructive to the future of this generation because it damages developing brains, increases traffic fatalities, and

The importance of having the proper in depth education about alcohol is often overlooked. As a result, underage drinkers do not learn about having limits when it comes to drinking. Underage drinkers often drink until intoxication because they think that being wasted is the goal. Through research linking to the pattern of underage drinkers , they "drink on fewer occasions,but when they drink they are more likely to binge drink" (Henry Nelson). Many adolescents from ages 16-20 will find themselves in situations where they experience life and learn from their mistakes. In time, they become more tolerant and by the time they are actually 21, underage drinkers are able to withstand more alcohol and know how much they can drink before being totally intoxicated and even blackout. But not having the proper education on how to drink responsibly is only the first half of the problem. Many people 16 and up have permits and licenses so after these long sessions of drinking they make horrible decisions such as driving. Teaching adolescents will result in less incidents of drinking and driving. Having a more in depth learning curriculum about alcohol instead

This is the end mom, I wish I could look you in the eye to say theses final words mom. I LOVE YOU & GOODBYE” (Pinterest). There are a lot of things being done about this like Students Against Driving Drunk (SADD) is an organization that was founded in 1981. Its goal is to stop teens from drinking and driving. SADD and other local and national organizations recommend making a contract, or pact, with your parents. Kids need support and a lesson about what drinking and driving can take away from you or you away from something. How would your parents feel if you never came home from a party and drove drunk and had died? Set clear rules. A study of over 1,000 teens found that teens with “hands on” parents who establish clear behavioral expectations, monitor their teens comings and goings, and aren’t afraid to say no are four times less likely to engage in risky behaviors like drinking and driving. Feel free to be strict without feeling guilty. Some of the best ideas I’ve seen come from mostly parents who have lost their teen to drinking and driving. They don’t want someone else to have to go through the same pain they did or if they are going through it right now.

But what do we do to prepare young adults to make responsible decisions about alcohol? Beyond sometimes hysterical pronouncements about the evils of drink, not much. Suppose, instead of requiring drivers education and then issuing a learners permit and acknowledging that learning to drive safely is a shared obligation of school, state and home, we were simply to allow young people to drive once they reached legal driving age? I suspect we would face a serious "binge driving"

They all potentially binge drink at these ages due to work, stress and socializations. They come home and have a drink, but if you are sitting at home watching tv drinking you don’t really take into account how much you are drinking, so occasionally people binge drink without them even going out or them even knowing. Some people when they were younger saw their parents come home and have a drink so they think that this is the norm to do when they have had a busy day at work. Men’s percentage is higher in these age brackets because they do more laborious work and it is the norm for men to go to the pub after work, whereas women usually want to sit down and relax when they get home or they might have children so have to think about childcare

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Drinking and driving is one of the biggest social issues for teens across the United States. Getting behind the wheel of a vehicle after consuming alcohol is a very dangerous thing no matter what age you are. However, teens do not think about the consequences of drinking and driving until it is already too late. Many things contribute to this growing problem of teen drinking and driving. First, there is a lack of education about drinking and driving in schools today. Next, peer pressure is difficult for many teens to resist. Finally, the access that teens have to alcohol and to vehicles is not monitored. According to blah blah study, 000% of high school students admit

One of the things to examine when looking at teen drinking is how they are getting the alcohol. This is one the most frightening facts, teenagers are not old enough to buy alcohol so where are they getting it from. Unfortunately the answer to this question is very simple, adults. When it comes to teenagers getting alcohol from adults it is not every hard, just a little persuasion and now you are the most popular person in your school.

Currently the legal age to consume alcoholic beverages in the United States is 21 years old. Alcohol is the cause of 88,000 deaths per year in the United States (CDC, 2014). The following numbers include: drunk driving, homicides with alcohol involved, and alcohol poisoning. This is a high average for the current minimum legal drinking age, and the number of deaths continues to increase each year. Alcohol fatalities are considered a preventative death in the United States, which means fatalities that include alcohol can be avoided, by simply being responsible. There are so many things in place to prevent alcohol fatalities such as: drunk driving laws, mass media campaigns, sobriety checkpoints, alcohol screenings, brief

If they are under twenty one a alcohol, because drinking is known to cause brain damage and damage to the liver and drinking at a early age can do more damage than to somebody that’s 21. Teen drinking is mostly common from the age twelve to eighteen which can affect their learning and damage their brain and give them learning issues and have a lot of trouble problem solving and not understanding words as quick as other scientist have proven that teens iq goes down more than fifty percent and hundreds of teens die from alcohol every year so this shows America how dangerous alcohol really is its sad how most good teen gets pear pressured into drinking by they friends jest to fit in to the group drinking also causes teens to have unperceptive