The True Cost to Underage Drinking Unsupervised‚ underage drinking is a growing epidemic within the United States. However‚ there is another growing epidemic that seems to be larger than underage drinking: unreported sexual assaults. The amount of people being sexually assaulted are growing every single year and the percentages given out about these assaults do not correlate to exactly how many people get assaulted. The amount of money State College and Penn State invests into the investigation
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Topic Chosen: Peer pressure into underage drinking Proposal Statement: Does peer pressure play a role in the reason for underage teenagers drink alcohol? Hypothesis: My hypothesis is that peer pressure does affect the choice of an underage teenager to drink alcohol. Teenagers who are under the influence of alcohol can experience negative affects‚ such as sexual behavior‚ including unwanted‚ unintended‚ and unprotected sexual activity & heavy drinking later in life. Research Methodology:
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Introduction Underage drinking has affected many across the U.S. This topic has affected me personally in many ways‚ hence the reason I chose it. Throughout this project‚ I will discuss why underage drinking is such a problem‚ what my position is‚ courses of action‚ and possibly a visual to support the issue at hand. This may show as an interest to others for many reasons‚ but it has a personal meaning to me and friends of mine as well. I was curious as to what others had to say about this
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aired before‚ none of them have changed the public’s view on alcohol. Pairing with social services organizations‚ such as MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) and NCADD (National Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependence‚ Inc.)‚ to make commercials‚ or to have mandatory classes in school that will education the youth‚ may help reduce deaths and health problems. Drinking alcohol causes a substantial amount of deaths every year. Approximately 88‚000 deaths and around 2.5 million million years of potential
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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………………………… 5 UNDERAGE DRINKING…………………………………………………………………... 5 MILITARY UNDERGE DRINKING……………………………………………………..... 7 BINGE DRINKING……………………………………………………............................... 8 CONCLUSION……………………………………………………..................................... 11 RECOMMENDATIONS/SOLUTIONS……………………………………………………. 11 MILITARY WINGMAN CONCEPT……………………………………………………..... 13 ENFORCING THE LAW……………………………………………………...................... 15 WORKS CITED……………………………………………………
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each year to alcohol related causes. Since they put a legal age on drinking in 1964‚ estimates of 7‚000 to 10‚000 lives have been saved each year. Yet many people still insist that it should be lowered. People that favor the side of lowering the age use no logical facts in their argument besides the revenue it would produce‚ but can you really put a price on thousands of young lives? I have been a firsthand witness to teenagers drinking and have heard my share of stories. HA. One thing that is common
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heard the terms boozing‚ drinking to get drunk‚ sloshed‚ tanked‚ tipsy‚ tooted‚ and hammered. But have you ever really thought about what you were saying when you used these terms. You were saying that all that you did the night before was binge drink. Binge drinking on college campuses is something that has grown to an all time high but who’s to blame? All too often we have heard the horror stories of how kids are getting behind the wheel of a car after a night of binge drinking‚ and end up killing everyone
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danger of drinking when we are 21. We are allowed to do this new and exciting thing‚ drink. Then when we are done‚ we do something that doesn’t cross our minds as dangerous. We get in our cars. We’ve been doing it for 5 years now‚ we don’t even have to think about it. 10‚265 people died due to drinking and driving in 2015 alone. And 1.1 million people were arrested for driving while intoxicated. What I believe should be done to fix this problem is to change the legal ages for drinking and driving
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Underage Drinking Underage drinking is widespread along adolescents‚ according to an annual survey of U.S youth‚ three-fourths of twelfth graders‚ more than two-thirds of tenth graders‚ and about two in every five eighth graders have consumed alcohol. Each year approximately five thousand young people under the age of twenty one die as a result of underage drinking; This includes about 1‚900 deaths from motor vehicle crashes‚ 1‚600 as a result of homicides‚ 300 from suicide‚ as well as hundreds
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Underage Drinking Underage drinking‚ now more than ever‚ is a big problem us the US. In our society today‚ underage drinking is expressed as cool‚ or a way to have fun. Some causes of underage drinking are the media and peer pressure. There are also many negative effects of underage drinking such as health risks like alcohol poisoning. Media plays a big role in this risk. Just watching television you see commercials for beer or other alcoholic beverages. The media makes it look like fun all
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