Underage drinking is one of the most serious public health issues in the United States. Alcohol is one of the most abused substances among America’s youth. Consequences of underage drinking can affect anyone no matter your age or your drinking status. Legally you can drink under the age of twenty one in the state of Ohio if you are under your parent’s supervision. Your parent has to give consent and be physically present while you are consuming alcohol. You can be arrested for: drinking‚ buying or
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Underage Drinking Underage drinking is widespread along adolescents‚ according to an annual survey of U.S youth‚ three-fourths of twelfth graders‚ more than two-thirds of tenth graders‚ and about two in every five eighth graders have consumed alcohol. Each year approximately five thousand young people under the age of twenty one die as a result of underage drinking; This includes about 1‚900 deaths from motor vehicle crashes‚ 1‚600 as a result of homicides‚ 300 from suicide‚ as well as hundreds
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Lowering the Drinking Age Many teenage deaths in the United States are caused in some way by the influence of alcohol; however‚ many people still believe that the legal drinking age should be reduced to eighteen. This issue has been going on for years‚ but the law has not been changed since the change to twenty-one in 1980. States have become stricter about preventing under-age drinking‚ but teenagers have no problem getting alcohol. There are many arguments in favor of changing the drinking age back to
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Binge drinking in college is a huge problem because of the availability of alcohol‚ genetic susceptibility‚ and because of strong social pressures. The availability of alcohol is extremely dangerous because majority of time‚ the alcohol is free. Many greek sororities‚ fraternities‚ and sports teams offer free alcohol to whomever joins. “4 out of 5 fraternity and sorority members are binge drinkers. In comparison‚ other research suggests 2 out of 5 college students overall are regular binge drinkers”
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Drinking is an issue Alcohol is a controversial topic and its usage a more critical issue in front of us. Drinking is related to vivid debates all around the country‚ with netizens arguing on what should be decided. Some argue that the age should be lowered as it is open jurisdiction to everyone. But if we take the things as what I think‚ it should be raised. I have other reason but cause may be varied. Hence‚ through a conclusive reason which may be vivid‚ but there is a lot of debate over the drinking
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In " It’s Time to Let Teenagers Drink Again" (Time magazine May 19‚ 2014) Camille Paglia believe the rule of the National Minimum Drinking Age Act should be "repealed". Beside the right of voting‚ serving in the military or entering contracts‚ teenagers should be allowed to buy beer and wine. The author thinks the rule is restricting personal choice of teenagers. The reason that the rule was created‚ is about the increasing of drunk driving causes of traffic accidents‚ but Camille Paglia thinks it
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Under Age Drinking and Today’s Youth Bryan Reid ENG 123 – IE‚ Summer 2014 Brandon Sweeney There are those out there in today’s society who believe that today’s alcohol policy that is imposed on our youth here in America should be focused more so on the fact that alcohol consumption with the youth of today is going to happen at some point eventually. Instead‚ we ought to be trying to find ways to reduce the harm that our nation’s youth face from the use of alcohol; rather than trying to force
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“Underage Risky Drinking” is to understand the key motives and outcomes that young people may have when drinking underage‚ to what extent they drink and also to explore the social and health related issues that may encounter due to the excessive drinking. This report also focuses on why young people choose to drink in an unsupervised location instead of a supervised location; for example: unsupervised – the park‚ supervised – parents home. This research into “Underage Risky Drinking” also looks at
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Persuasive Speech on Underage Drinking People might think that alcohol is something that helps you cut loose and makes you full of energy‚ but reality check-alcohol is actually a depressant that damages your body in the long run. Alcohol is a problem that affects multiple people and families‚ but in today’s society it’s affecting teenagers. The horrible facts that I will present to you will prove that underage drinking needs to come to end before it’s too late for some. Some people
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Drinking under age is a major problem now in days with teens like me. That think that it will help them deal with their problems back home but what we don’t know it can actually make everything way worse than what it already is. This is my experience on why I thought it would help and what it actually happen and how it just gave me more problems than what I already have and what I learn. It all started on this past weekend on a Saturday me and a friend whet to a concert on base. I been having
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