Underage Drinking Analysis

All parents were once teens, and therefore they have all felt the urge to drink illegally. The minimum age for drinking is 21, but who really follows that law anymore? These days, parents are providing alcohol for teens, or teens can buy it themselves at local stores that do not require an identification card. Going to a friend’s house to “hang out” is turning into going to a party to drink. Adolescents have a busy life, and some do not know how to handle it properly. Parents need to know how to help them out. If parents understand the motives behind teens drinking, it may make the process of alleviating underage drinking easier for them.

Did you know that underage drinking is allowed in twenty nine states if it is done on private grounds with parental approval, twenty five states for religious purposes,and eleven for educational purposes.Many people feel that the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen. However, many people are opposed by the idea and would rather the MLDA be kept at twenty one. The MLDA should be lowered to eighteen because However, a twenty one year old's brain is more mature than a eighteen year old's brain and can withstand the effect alcohol has on the brain. (boston.com) The brain goes through some really important changes involving the prefrontal cortex of the brain where decision making and judgement are involved (boston.com). Therefor, when any

Brooklyn, NY which is considered Kings County population is 2,621,793, of that population 52.6% are females and 47.4% are males. In regard of races and ethnicity in the Kings County population Only White is 49.5%, Black or African American is 35.4%, American Indian and Alaska Native is 1.0%, Asian is 11.7%, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islanders are 0.1%, Hispanic or Latino are 19.6% and two or more races are 2.3%. 12% (314,615.16) of the population is 65 years and older, 23.3% is under 18 years old and 7.4% (183,525.51) is under the age of 5. There are 10.8% (269,060) individuals in Kings County with any type of disability.

Many people Drink under age and of age which is the age of 21. There are many consequences and effect of what could happen and do to you and others around you.

This story is about how I grew and how I would keep on growing if I didn't under age drink.

My topic is underage drinking I feel as though many teenagers engage in drinking, even if it is going to a party and drinking. In my hometown, where I grew up recently because nearly about every year a senior class loses a classmate due to drinking and driving or alcohol poison. I remember when I was a senior, we had lost a classmate sue to going out partying and drinking and getting behind the wheel. The teenager then was only 16 going on 17, so under the age for drinking.

Determining legal the appropriate legal age of drinking and the percussions of alcohol consumption and its adverse consequences is more than a challenge. To determine if the minimum legal drinking age should be set at 18 or 21 there is many barriers to surpass, “Their main limitation is that the correlation between alcohol consumption and adverse events imitation is that the correlation between alcohol consumption and adverse events is probably due in part to factors other than alcohol consumption” due to the fact that to analyze the correct drinking age will have to involve many discrepancies due to physical and culture wise, as the fact that studies involving underaged drinking will have to be done.

Report provides evident that social media have an influence on underage drinking. Social media have more effect on boys than it does on girls. Report shows (a) that (20%) boys and 10% girls under the age of 21 experimented with alcohol drinking after viewing alcohol contents on social media, (b) that (40%) boys and (25%) girls under the age of 21 are willing to experiment with drinking alcohol, and (c) that (80%) boys and (90%) girls did not drink any alcohol after the experiment.

In 114 countries the legal drinking age differs from age 14-20, while in other countries including the United States they have a legal drinking age of 21. Dating back to the prohibition era in the 1920s people protested drinking saying that alcohol is bad for your body, which it is.This created illegal pubs to pop up called speakeasies. Later after the law was passed it got revoked because of all of the protests. The legal drinking age nationwide should be lowered to age 18.

The legal drinking age was determined by Congress over 30 years ago but it has been a battle that many have fought against. Researching for why the law was created in the first place and how they have managed to keep it at twenty-one has led me into a new way of thinking in relation to what the legal age should be. When I originally chose the topic I knew I thought the legal age should be eighteen. I had all of the reasoning’s and information to support my claim and knew there were numerous others who felt the same but as I began to read the articles and evidence presented by “the other side” my perspective shifted. Perspective seems to be shifting nationally because “underage drinking rates…continue to fall.”(MADD)

One always hear drama on the news and read in papers or on social media about underage drinking. Some kids care but not as much as one should because one still drinks. Is it all fun and games or is it life or death, most kids don’t think about that. Takemini's was a 14 year old girl who died because of soda mixed with vodka. But “ Takemini’s thought they had eaten something bad and were sick from the food,” said Lt. Dennis O’Leary of the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department. But it wasn’t that one found her passed out on her bedroom floor. Paramedics came in her house and pronounced her dead at the scene. Paramedics didn’t really know what it was for but thought she died from alcohol poisoning. Her parents were devastated. “They drink these

August 20, 2016: The first full weekend of freshman year at Clemson for me and ten other people I had met in the first week of college. It was one of my friend’s birthday and after eating dinner downtown so innocently, we all decided to crack open some alcohol to celebrate the new school year and our friend’s 18th. Not too long into the night, things went south quickly. In Lever, an openly and enforceable dry housing building, the RA on-call knocked on our door and asked to see identification and exactly how much alcohol he correctly suspected we had. Thus began what I was terrified would always happen to me, I would let loose once and make a huge mistake that would affect my entire college career. Luckily the university is forgiving and understands

Underage drinking has become a big problem in our society today. Many young teens die daily due to drinking alcohol, because these teens are abusing the age policy of drinking. Underage drinking is a problem today, because it is causing teens to act out in a certain way. This is a problem because teens drinking cause not only health problems, but causes rapes and car accidents. Underage drinking occur during lack of supervision, and sometimes occur while the adults are around. Underage drinking could be solved if schools have alcohol classes, parents become more alert, and all the media stops promoting.

Alcohol also has a significant affect on the heart. The heart is the main part of the body that needs to stay healthy and consumption of alcohol can cause irregular heartbeat, strokes, and high blood pressure. Consumption of alcohol causes many future health risks such as; increase risk of cancer, cirrhosis, fibrosis, and alcohol hepatitis (Heath 170).

Emotional and physical health can be greatly harmed by drinking alcohol. “Excessive alcohol use among women and girls accounted for an estimated average of 23,000 deaths and 633,000 years of potential life lost in the United States each year during 2001–2005” (Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report 36). Just drinking alcohol alone throughout your life can shorten your life by a lot. “Even a small amount of alcohol has an affect on your body. When you drink, alcohol is absorbed into your bloodstream and distributed throughout your body. A tiny amount of alcohol exits your body in your urine and your breath.You absorb alcohol more slowly if you eat, especially if the food is high in fat. However, if you drink more than your body can process, you’ll get drunk. How quickly alcohol is metabolized depends on your size and gender, among other things. Alcohol consumption causes physical and emotional changes that can do great harm to your body. The long-term effects of alcohol abuse are many, putting your health in serious jeopardy and endangering your life”