Alcohol abuse

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Alcohol abuse

Alcohol is an element that has short term and long term detrimental effects on individuals. It is crucial to highlight that alcohol is a depressant drug that constrains the coordination, vision, multi-tasking ability and the decision making ability of an individual. These alcohol effects constrain intensive activities, such as driving, because driving involves multiple actions and proper mental functioning. In this regard, it is arguable that lowering the drinking age will encourage more accidents and death.

It is crucial to highlight that alcohol has a multiplier effect in terms of influence to engage in drinking. When the authorities lower the drinking age, the teenagers who meet the threshold age will easily influence the younger teenagers towards consuming alcohol (Black, 2010). When the minimum drinking age is 19 years, the 18 and 17 year old teenagers are highly likely to obtain alcohol from their older counterparts. It is vital to stress that minimal age differences means that involved individuals perform similar activities. In this regard, they will engage in both constructive and destructive behavior patterns. The higher number of teenagers who drink suggests that they will be high likelihood of accidents in the roads.

Lowering the drinking age is a disastrous strategy because it targets a population of individuals who are highly likely to be immature. Responsibility is an idea that improves in an individual as one grows. In turn, an individual should possess the responsibilities that are in tandem with one’s age. At a young age, a person cannot handle a significant number of responsibilities because one does not possess the maturity to control the factors that involve the particular responsibilities. Lowering the drinking age means that the society endows younger people with the task of self control.  Self-control is not an easy concept for young people because they mostly employ their intuition to make critical decisions. On the other hand, a mature per.............

Alcohol abuse

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Alcohol abuse

Alcohol is an element that has short term and long term detrimental effects on individuals. It is crucial to highlight that alcohol is a depressant drug that constrains the coordination, vision, multi-tasking ability and the decision making ability of an individual. These alcohol effects constrain intensive activities, such as driving, because driving involves multiple actions and proper mental functioning. In this regard, it is arguable that lowering the drinking age will encourage more accidents and death.

It is crucial to highlight that alcohol has a multiplier effect in terms of influence to engage in drinking. When the authorities lower the drinking age, the teenagers who meet the threshold age will easily influence the younger teenagers towards consuming alcohol (Black, 2010). When the minimum drinking age is 19 years, the 18 and 17 year old teenagers are highly likely to obtain alcohol from their older counterparts. It is vital to stress that minimal age differences means that involved individuals perform similar activities. In this regard, they will engage in both constructive and destructive behavior patterns. The higher number of teenagers who drink suggests that they will be high likelihood of accidents in the roads.

Lowering the drinking age is a disastrous strategy because it targets a population of individuals who are highly likely to be immature. Responsibility is an idea that improves in an individual as one grows. In turn, an individual should possess the responsibilities that are in tandem with one’s age. At a young age, a person cannot handle a significant number of responsibilities because one does not possess the maturity to control the factors that involve the particular responsibilities. Lowering the drinking age means that the society endows younger people with the task of self control.  Self-control is not an easy concept for young people because they mostly employ their intuition to make critical decisions. On the other hand, a mature per.............