Control Drinking: Stopping Drunk Driving

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To begin with lowering the drinking age to eighteen would be good for supervision. For example being able to drink at age eighteen will have the citizens drink legally in bars, restaurants and other licenses establishments ( DrinkingAgeProCon.org#4).In fact all licensed establishments have a time that says only certain amounts of drinks to a person. Future more that will cause the workers at the restaurants or at the public place to be notify how much that one person had to drink. Which that will prevent that one person from not over drinking. Or if the person already drink intoxicant the workers can assistant them the safely route to be getting home, safe and un harm. According to the website (DrinkAgeProCon.org#4) it says “allowing eighteens to twenty year olds to drink alcohol in regulated environments with supervision would decrease unsafe drinking activity". In fact having restaurants or any licensed establishment’s serving alcohol to eighteen years olds would help the economy because the age group went down then" greater amounts of tax revenue should be collected by the government (DrinkingAgeProCon.org#4). So public drinkers will be in save drinking because there will be regulations to be follow. At the same time they would be making money for the government, how can the government

Starting to drink at a very young age increases the chances to develop an addiction to alcohol than those who begin drinking at the age of twenty-one. Some people around the age of eighteen begin drink illegally so why not lower the age and make it fifteen. Alcohol will be able to be sold to people who are fifteen or older. This will give young adults the chance to get used to drinking and know how much alcohol they can take. They should be able to take their driver's ed and their driver's test intoxicated so they can learn how to drive the right way. Young adults will get to experience the blurry vision and other side effects that come with driving intoxicated at a very young age and find it very enjoyable making them want to keep doing it over and over again. Doing this will cause them to have an obsessive addiction to

Once the allure of alcohol is no longer a social trend, parents would be stripped of their worries of their “rebellious teenagers sneaking off to basements and backwoods to binge drink far from adult supervision” (Griggs). Parents cannot protect their children from every hazard in the world, but they can educate their kids and desensitize their kids to the thrill of drinking out of adult supervision. Opposers claim that the current law “...[diminishes] the number of traffic deaths caused by young drunk drivers...” but they fail to realize that “...tougher seat belt and D.U.I. rules have contributed to the decrease, too” (Glaser). “Raising the drinking age hasn't reduced drinking -- it’s merely driven it underground..” (Glaser). With the legal drinking age at 18 and the incorporation of alcohol awareness classes, citizens would develop safer habits when consuming

well the thing about this passage it talks about how the PSA can help people from drinking and driving at the same time because they can get hurt or even killed from these drugs or they can get hurt really,really, bad that's why the PSA is a good way to open the door for parents to begin talking with teens about certain subjects also''the PSAs will always be a form of advertising that is used to talk about certain subjects.''

In 2013, 10,076 people were killed in drunk driving incidents. Out of those people, 65% (6,515) were drivers, 27% (2,724) were passengers, and 8% (837) were non-passengers (“Drunk Driving Statistics”). Over half of those fatalities (67.1%) involved blood alcohol levels over .15% (“Drunk Driving Statistics”). The legal blood-alcohol content is .08%. Drunk driving caused 31% of deaths in car crashes in 2013 (“Drunk Driving Statistics”). In 2012, 402 people were killed by alcohol impairment in North Carolina (“Drunk Driving Statistics”). These numbers, though they seem astonishing, have been cut in half since 1991 (“Drunk Driving Statistics”). Even though the number of fatalities has been lowered, that number is not low enough. Most drunk drivers are repeat offenders. Lives are being taken because of the careless attitude of the drunk drivers. Drunk driving is selfish; those who commit this crime do not think about the extreme consequences of their actions. In North America it is estimated that 1-5 drivers has been drinking and 1 in 10 is legally impaired on any Friday or Saturday night (Root). Many groups, including MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), are fighting to stop drunk driving. Unfortunately, drunk driving cannot be stopped. People will always commit this heinous crime. The numbers may go down, but unfortunately there will always be a number. The only way to continually decrease the amount of lives lost is to increase punishments for drunk driving.

In other countries, the MLDA is low. Lowering the drinking age, would prevent other crimes from happening. Drinking age is not directly associated with the decrease in traffic fatalities. Body Lowering the drinking age, would decrease dangerous, unsupervised drinking

There are many different views on drinking alcohol, especially underage drinking. Everyone has different views on the drinking age. Some think it should be lowered and others believe that it should be raised. Then some believe that it should remain the same at the age of twenty-one years old. Keeping the alcohol consumption age at twenty-one limits the dangers of not only those under twenty-one, but other people in the community. Lowering the drinking age will cause more problems than it would fix, but people will argue against that, and other countries have lower to no age requirements at all.

Nearly thirty-one percent of car crash related deaths are from people putting themselves at risk and opening that bottle while they are driving. Which puts even people in their homes, on the streets, and behind the wheel at risk. Drinking makes the body tired, not functionable, very sleepy, blackouts, memory loss, anxiety, strange sensations and can even reduce the chance of a driver to pass out. There are so many police reports of drinking related car crashes. Can you imagine the feeling of losing family members loved ones and/or your friends? Is it really worth the risk of drinking and driving? Drinking can be brought up by different behaviors and attitudes that can be harmful to people and even themselves. Raising the drinking age not only affects the communities, and can affect one's family and friends around

So obviously doing away with alcohol will not stop its manufacturing or its use and if anything it will increase its use. But what if we just make it legal for some and not others? After the prohibition the drinking age was raised back up to 21. The age stayed there until the vietnam war came around. Then, states began to lower their personal drinking age to 18 (Tietjan why 21) justifying themselves with the argument “If a man can die for his nation can he at least enjoy a beer?’ (Tietjan “Why 21”) We see the states begin to all lower their drinking age, but this too proved not a good idea. Binge drinking and drunk driving was rampant due to teenagers that just earned their drinking rights and were not able to handle it. Teenagers had no clue how to safely drink and it was dangerous for everybody. Mothers against drunk driving (MADD) formed after a Candy Lightner had her daughter ran over by a previously convicted drunk driver. Protesting began, they were effective, and the drinking age was raised to 21 (The Study of Drunk Driving Laws in the US). While many argue that modern seat belt laws and increase of a crackdown on drunk driving has decreased the fatalities, (Danilloff in 18 vs. 21) the amount of drunk driving has decreased such a large percentage that it is not likely. Soon president reagan issued a

This will not stop alcoholism, but help reduce the amount of it spreading in the United States of America. Giving 18 year olds the freedom to drink will help in them drinking more responsibly and make it less appealing in the eyes of the teens by removing the risk of caught. Being available to drink at any time and reduce the amount of alcohol consumed in one sitting. By reducing the amount of alcohol consumed by 18 year olds it would reduce the amount of alcoholics in America the streets and in public settings. Some would argue that 18 would be too young because of the preset regulations that have been around for many years,

If the drinking age was lowered minors who drink would not be afraid to call for help if needed (Drinking Age Pro con.org) An example of this happened to an

Alcoholism is a disease, like cancer. Alcoholism is not a lifestyle choice for alcoholics. It is a disease, like cancer, where intervention, treatment, and follow up are needed to recover. As with cancer, remission and a cure cannot be guaranteed. Alcohol causes a wide range of negative effects in the lives of alcoholics and those who know and love them. Insurance companies need to be aware of this disease and provide coverage and ongoing support for treatment. We need to find a way for those in need to more easily access the help they need and make it easier to work with insurance for coverage. As a society, we need to more to prevent the marketing of alcohol to our youth that are underage. By looking at how our youth are targeted by alcohol marketing and working to reduce this, maybe we can help to reduce the number of young people that start drinking and then become alcoholics.

Approximately one million people are injured in alcohol-related traffic crashes every year and young people, ages 16 to 24 are involved in 28% of those alcohol-related driving accidents, although they make up only 14% of the U.S. population. On any given weekend evening, one in 10 drivers on America's roads has been drinking and according to the latest statistics, in a family of five the prospect of you or someone in your family being involved in an alcohol-related motor vehicle accident in their lifetime, is an astounding 200 percent. That's a lot of tragic, meaningless deaths that could actually have been avoided.