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Drinking Age Debate

Drinking Age Debate. By Josh Piske Section VF 4-13-12. Argument for lowering the age to 18. Almost all adult rights are received at 18 Vote, Enlist in the Military, Serve on Juries 18 year olds still told that they are “too immature” to consume alcohol. Amethyst Initiative.

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Drinking Age Debate

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  1. Drinking Age Debate By Josh Piske Section VF 4-13-12

  2. Argument for lowering the age to 18 • Almost all adult rights are received at 18 • Vote, Enlist in the Military, Serve on Juries • 18 year olds still told that they are “too immature” to consume alcohol

  3. Amethyst Initiative • People concerned about lack of progress in the reduction of alcohol issues among college students • Amethyst Initiative • Signed by 135 college chancellors across country • The Amethyst Initiative is a group that believes “alcohol education that mandates abstinence as the only legal option has not resulted in significant constructive behavioral change among our students” • Amethyst Initiative calls for the United States government to lower the drinking age to 18 • “Keeping the drinking age at 21 promotes unsafe drinking” • Drinking is being driven “underground” to apartment parties instead of being monitored at public places such as a bar • College chancellors believe an increase in alcohol-poisoning rates among college students due to off-campus parties

  4. Argument for leaving the age at 21 • Main Reason: SAFETY • According to a survey by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, over 26,000 lives from young adults have been saved by keeping the drinking age at 21 since 1976. • Also stated in that survey is that two in five teenage deaths are due to automobile accidents • Means that automobile accidents are number one cause of death for teenagers in the United States • NHTSA also found that alcohol was involved in one-third of these life-ending injuries (due to driving under the influence or getting into an accident with someone who is)

  5. Main Point • Both sides just want young people to be safe • The debate on where to keep the appropriate drinking age could be mediated by a strong alcohol education program in order to achieve a drinking license.

  6. AlcoholEdu • AlcoholEdu is a program in which college students must complete an alcohol information seminar before moving in on their designated college campus • Stanford Success • 71% of students claimed program was somewhat effective • 77% of students saying they learned at least one thing from the program • Although program was somewhat successful, binge drinking and driving is still a pressing issue

  7. Mediation • “Choose Responsibility” • Developed by President of Middlebury College • Organization that seeks the best way to lower alcohol abuse • Proposes a program similar to driver’s education • This course would contain an experienced alcohol instructor “trained specifically to cover the legal, ethical, health and safety issues of the curriculum and skilled in dealing with young adults” • Course would consist of classwork and a final exam • Once final exam is passed student is “licensed”

  8. Mediation • “Choose Responsibility” states that it is different than previous alcohol education programs in that it will “provide accurate, truthful and unbiased alcohol education for both drinkers and abstainers” • “It would acknowledge the social reality of alcohol in American society, but it would advocate neither abstinence nor consumption. It would seek only to create a basis for responsible choices where alcohol is concerned” • Would involve real life situations • DUI hearings • Drunk Driving crashes • Collaborate with family- uniting teaching and the home

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