Should the Legal Drinking Age Be Lowered?
Kody Hurst
Health Across the Lifespan
Professor Ladeur
Eastern Kentucky University
Should the legal drinking age be lowered? The drinking age should definently not be lowered considering many factors. For one, the age to purchase a weapon is 18, which would cause many complications between drunk teenagers and the authority to purchase a weapon. Second, alcohol consumption in a teenagers undeveloped brain can cause many health problems later in life. Lastly, a teenager drinking in a bar is definently not a safe environment because many people get killed, raped, drugged and much more in bars and other drinking affiliated environments. By the age of 18, many people consider these people adults. A privilege of being 18 is the fact that you can buy a weapon. If we allow these people to purchase weapons and alcohol, many irresponsible children will buy both and cause many more fatalities than should be. It would just add to the billions of people who die every single day. Alcohol sometimes causes rage in many people which could also cause these people to go on a killing spree, killing many innocent people just because their angry. The US Federal Trade commission educated us about underage drinking by: Alcohol consumption can interfere with development of the young adult brain's frontal lobes, essential for functions such as emotional regulation, planning, and organization. When alcohol consumption interferes with this early adult brain development, the potential for chronic problems such as greater vulnerability to addiction, dangerous risk-taking behavior, reduced decision-making ability, memory loss, depression, violence, and suicide is greater (2010). James C. Fell examined and conluded that 76% of bars have sold alcohol to obviously intoxicated patrons, and about half of drivers arrested for driving while intoxicated (DWI) or killed as alcohol-involved drivers in
Health Across the Lifespan
Professor Ladeur
Eastern Kentucky University
Should the legal drinking age be lowered? The drinking age should definently not be lowered considering many factors. For one, the age to purchase a weapon is 18, which would cause many complications between drunk teenagers and the authority to purchase a weapon. Second, alcohol consumption in a teenagers undeveloped brain can cause many health problems later in life. Lastly, a teenager drinking in a bar is definently not a safe environment because many people get killed, raped, drugged and much more in bars and other drinking affiliated environments. By the age of 18, many people consider these people adults. A privilege of being 18 is the fact that you can buy a weapon. If we allow these people to purchase weapons and alcohol, many irresponsible children will buy both and cause many more fatalities than should be. It would just add to the billions of people who die every single day. Alcohol sometimes causes rage in many people which could also cause these people to go on a killing spree, killing many innocent people just because their angry. The US Federal Trade commission educated us about underage drinking by: Alcohol consumption can interfere with development of the young adult brain's frontal lobes, essential for functions such as emotional regulation, planning, and organization. When alcohol consumption interferes with this early adult brain development, the potential for chronic problems such as greater vulnerability to addiction, dangerous risk-taking behavior, reduced decision-making ability, memory loss, depression, violence, and suicide is greater (2010). James C. Fell examined and conluded that 76% of bars have sold alcohol to obviously intoxicated patrons, and about half of drivers arrested for driving while intoxicated (DWI) or killed as alcohol-involved drivers in