Driving Under Influence

Once the issue of lowering the minimum legal drinking age arose, many individual states began to review their drinking laws. Some chose to lower the legal age to eighteen, while others remained at twenty-one. Between 1970 and 1976, 29 states had changed their legal drinking age to eighteen (Main 35). What this caused was teenagers travelling from one state to another where they were allowed to drink at the age of eighteen. This travelling led to an increase in highway accidents due to drunk driving (Main 35). This was quickly brought to the federal government’s attention. In the article, “Turning 21 and the Associated Changes in Drinking and Driving After Drinking Among College Students” by Kim Fromme, Reagan R. Wetherill, and Dan J. Neal, the problem with alcohol related highway accidents was addressed. The states realized that the differences between legal drinking ages was causing a problem and by 1988, each state had set their legal drinking age back to twenty-one (Fromme, Neal, and Wetherill 22). Now, the question is whether or not this change has had a positive or negative effect on drinking habits amongst teenagers.

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

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.

Opponents contend that: (1) Lowering the MLDA will see an increase in injuries and death resulting from car crashes; (2) Long-term alcohol abuse causes serious health problems in teens when compared to teens that do not drink alcohol; and, (3) Teens that drink alcohol are involved in a higher rate of assaults than teens that do not drink alcohol. Opponents also argue that teens who abuse alcohol: (4) Are more apt to commit suicide, than teens who do not abuse alcohol; (5) Are involved in a significant amount of non-vehicular homicides, than teens that do not drink alcohol; (6) Have a higher chance of being sexually and physically abused by friends and strangers than non-drinking teens.

Drinking and driving is not always a right thing. When people drink and drive the action of it could get extremely dangerous. Wrecks are one of the main problems that can happen when some people are drunk because some can lose control of what they are trying to do and end up wrecking. Another problem is driving under the influence of being on drugs. This can cause serious damage. When people are on drugs, they lose train of thought and half of the time, they forget what they are doing. It does not end too well. People can become abusive because they usually do not exactly know what they are doing. Usually, people do drugs to get their minds or to make them feel better when they are emotional, but when others do so much, they lose control

Society normally views teenagers as rebellious kids with an impulse to live new experiences. These experiences range from going to their first party to having their first alcoholic drink, and are sometimes as drastic as trying their first drug. Drinking alcoholic beverages is something that involves a lot of responsibility and can bring a plethora of negative consequences. This is the main reason why the United States has established a legal drinking age that I consider to be relatively high. With the legal drinking age being so high, while intending to avoid harmful situations, brings many repercussions that are equally as harmful.

Drinking and driving can cause a lifetime of pain. When you get under the wheel while you are intoxicated not only are you putting yourself at risk, but also the lives of other innocent people are in danger. Everyone should have the right to drink but if you act irresponsibly, your right should be taken away. Each person is liable to suffer the consequences from endangering others. One who drives drunk not only should have their license taken away, they should have the right to drink taken away. Drinking and driving may not seem like a big deal until you see what happens when things go wrong. I would like you to read a personal narrative that Casey McCary Bloom wrote who is now serving 21 years to life in prison.

If you choose to drive while under the influence of alcohol, you put yourself and others at risk. Such a decision is not only irresponsible but the cause of thousands of deaths and injury per year in the United States. To be exact, quoting the NHTSA, "In 2012, more than 10,000 people died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes - one every 51 minutes." As the subjects in MADD's documentary "Lives Affected" all state, losing someone they love to drunk driving changes their lives completely. In many cases the drunk drivers who caused the accident abandoned the scene. You are required by law to assist those you have come in contact with in an accident. This should go without saying, especially if you were the one who caused it.

The purpose of this paper is to make it clear that there needs to be stricter drunk driving laws and penalties. The impact of driving under the influence (DUI) has a significant risk to the safety of the public. Driving under the influence of alcohol or while intoxicated (DWI) is not a new dilemma, it has been around since the invention of the automobile. Driving needs a considerable amount of ability, such as alertness, concentration, clear vision, and reaction time. However, when a person is intoxicated, the skill set that is used for safe driving becomes greatly debilitated, leading to an elevated risk for car accidents. Driving drunk has caused many alcohol-related deaths and injuries. These disasters could be avoided with harsher

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.

First off, alcohol addiction and abuse among teenagers today is a bigger problem than ever before. The root of the problem lies in the fact that the teens are so exposed to the culture of this day and age, leading them to where they have easy access to alcohol. For example, their parents may already be alcoholics, and it's merely a few bad decisions later which could cause the child to have a few drinks and cloud their judgement. This is a big problem because their young bodies have never encountered anything like alcohol before, so in turn, the body does not know how to process it, and therefore leads to their downfall. A publication released by the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (NIAA) suggests that by age 18, an astounding 60% of US teens would have had at least one drink. Moreover, according to the NIAA, youth between the ages of 12 and 20 will often binge drink as well.

Drunk driving is a serious crime that affects many people because out of any and all accidents that are car related one-third of them involve drunk drivers, not only that, but underage drinking and driving has become a problem, and the legal age to drink is set at twenty-one. Let's say that in the future the government decides it's okay to drink and drive, the percentage of crashes will increase wildly. Even though you still are not allowed to drink at twenty-one, it won't stop anyone, especially since it would be legal to drink and drive. They could get off with a warning instead of a license suspension, and if that's the only consequence who's to say they won't keep doing it and just hoping to not get caught. As you can see this problem has

There are major problems that result from alcohol use and abuse, which includes aggression and drunk driving. Abuse of alcohol causes intoxication and this results in an individual acting differently from how they would if they were sober. In some instances of intoxication, it may cause people to become aggressive and abusive. If an individual does have these characteristics when drunk it can destroy families and relationships. If a drunk individual continues to abuse his significant other, it can lead to a divorce or an end of a relationship. In other situations, there can even be child abuse, which can contribute to other negative occurrences. In real life my friend’s mom got extremely mad at her while she was intoxicated and continued to hit her until someone had to get pull her off. There are laws that could be put into place to control this

The risk of people driving drunk has increased over the years because cops have started to slow down on catching people that are driving under the influence. We are all at risk to drive under the influence but most of us decide not to because there are smart people In the world beside the people that actually drink and drive but most of them are complete idiots and need to stop driving drunk before they have to live with the guilt of knowing that they just killed someone. Male drivers between 22-45 who are old are responsible for over 50% of all drunk driving accidents but it 's more often because of the 22-25 year olds because there at drinking age and get drunk the first few days of being able to drink because they are beginners and they can’t handle how much they are going to drink and they want to leave after getting drunk because they don’t feel good and want to get home but most likely they get in a car crash and have to go to the hospital for injuries. They also don’t remember getting in the crash because they just usually leave and the next day they forget what happen because of the hangover the next day and they usually stay inside the next day because they don’t feel good. They don’t care though because

Not mention, the various laws that to discourage driving under the influence. Alcoholism is one of the biggest controversial conversions. Due to many points of view of when someone should be able to have a drink. One of the laws that can help with drunk drivers is having a higher drinking age. Forty percent of alcohol-related fatal car crashes involve teens. Sixty percent of all teen deaths in car accidents are alcohol related. The average boy takes his first drink around the age of 11 average girl 13. Teenagers around that age are still developing both physically and