Legalization Of Alcohol

With everyone wanting and buying alcohol it increased the demand for it, which is when organized crime started.

Underage drinking is very common in the United States. Alcohol is the most commonly used and abused drug in the United States, even more so than illicit drugs (Marijuana, Cocaine, etc…) and tobacco. “In 2012 the National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported that 24% of youth aged 12 to 20 years drink alcohol and 15% reported binge drinking. In 2013, the Monitoring the Future Survey reported that 28% of 8th graders and 68%

Prohibition in the United States, they thought if they could get people to stop drinking they could

In addition, these underage drinkers do not know when they will be able to obtain alcohol again. As a result, underage drinkers are more likely to drink irresponsibly than drinkers of age. In fact, thirty-two percent of underage drinkers have been involved in heavy drinking compared to the twenty-four percent of legal drinkers (Engs 1).

It was illegal even to transport the alcoholic beverages from one place to another. Often there would be high-speed chases in order to out run the police during the prohibition era. Mobsters made profit off of the alcohol. Various people took over cities and soon became a war on other bosses and cities. Violence started to take in place making guns shootings murders more often. for example for al Capone to survive this he spent almost half of his money earned from bootlegging profit on body guards. A lot of mafia related gangs were killing each other over

Many teenagers who had their first drink by the age of 15 is more likely to becoming addicted to alcohol than someone who starts drinking at the legal age of 21(cdc). Different teens drink for different reason, many teenagers are admitted into rehab for underage drinking. The ones that make it out that is, many teenagers who drink young and don’t get help die. Recently a 16 year old boy died from taking 24 shots at a party and no one wanted to take him to the hospital because of being scared of getting in trouble.

Prohibition began with the ratification of the 18th amendment stating,”…the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors…for beverage purpose is hereby prohibited.”(Constitution). In fact the Prohibition Act was effective in reducing the amount of alcohol consumed by the public; it, however, trigger an up-roar of organized criminal activity like the Mafia during the Prohibition movement.

Because liquor was no longer legally available, the public turned to gangsters who took on the bootlegging industry and supplied them with liquor. Because the industry was so immensely profitable, more gangs participated. As a result of the money involved in the bootlegging industry, there was much

Alcohol remains the most commonly used substance among youth in the United States with use rates far exceeding that of other substances. Nationally, almost half of all tenth graders and thirty percent of eighth graders drink alcohol (Mothers Against Drunk Driving, 2015). Teen alcohol use results in the death of 4,700 youth per year (Mothers Against Drunk Driving, 2015). In Texas, 67% of high school students have used alcohol at least once in their lifetime and 36% drank alcohol in the past month (Texans Standing Tall, 2013). Parents commonly ignore or underestimate the problem of underage drinking. While one is six teens binge drink, only 1 in 100 parents believes his or her teen binge drinks (Mothers Against Drunk Driving, 2015).

New money was described as deceitful and people who owned it were vulgar. They were considered outrageous and explicit. New money was made usually in illegal ways such as bootlegging. Bootlegging was a crime, but it was looked upon with admiration. It was disrespectful, but that didn’t stop many of the police from participating in such illegal acts. Bootleggers were prominent and many officers were dismissed from any further investigations. Bootlegging was so popular and organized that it was incorporated into the mainstream such as films and movies. These illegal activities occurred because of the Prohibition, which made alcohol illegal in the first place. Prohibition encountered corruption and law enforcement and death rate went up. Homicides began to increase, many of these were due to drunkenness. Wets began to battle drys (drinking wise), and morals and manners began to fail. There were a few women unions who began to speak out against violence and alcohol abuse. The twenty-first amendment, which made alcohol illegal argued that grain used for alcoholic beverages should instead be used for bread. Many places began to close due to the new law and failed to reopen afterwards, so in addition to bootlegging some Americans took it upon themselves to make their own drinks at home. Bootleggers had the chance to become extremely wealthy with “new money”. The places that were

Roughly 50 percent of those students engage in binge drinking which involves consuming too much alcohol in a short amount of time (Alcohol Abuse in College. Retrieved February 28, 2017, https://www.alcoholrehabguide.org/resources/college-alcohol-abuse/).

I chose an article from the Chamberlain Library entitled Teens and alcohol abuse. This article coincides with my previous discussion topic college students and underage drinking. This article outlines the statistics for alcohol use and abuse among teenagers and young adults. It defines alcohol abuse as “a pattern of heavy drinking that significantly compromises a person’s physical health and social functioning” (Sherwood, 2015). It is estimated that 855,000 Americans ages twelve to seventeen fit the diagnosis of alcohol use disorder in 2012 (NIAAA, 2012). It goes on to say 35% of American teens have had at least one alcoholic drink by age 15 and 65% begin drinking by age 18.

As stated by NIAAA, UNDERAGE DRINKING: A MAJOR PUBLIC HEALTH CHALLENGE, The younger you are when you start drinking, the greater your

v. 1.9% have been daily drinking for at least 1 month at some point in their lives

Teenage binge drinking (consumption of five or more alcohol drinks in a row) has grown to be a serious problem in the United States. A report in 2009 from the Surgeon General’s office show alcohol consumption by teens start as early as 11 years of age for boys and 13 years of age for girls (Grant & Dawson, 1997). In the youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Report (2007), data results showed that over three million teenagers in grades 6 through 12 are alcoholics, and several million teens have serious health issues due to drinking. Further research conducted by the Harvard School of Public health (2006) show a direct correlation of automobile accidents, alcohol poisoning, poor academic performance. violence and