Alchohlism - the Drinking Age

THE DRINKING AGE

The drinking age is fine, if anything is should get raised. It is hard

to ignore the fact that this law is broken everyday. It's the 90's all

teens just want to fit in. Kids are drinking at a much younger age.

Now, even 10 year olds and 11 year olds are trying to fit in with us

older kids. It's amazing and sometimes funny what kids will do just to

fit in with the "good" crowd. Well to some of us, that's considered

the druggies and drinkers. Our parents call them the "bad" crowd with

good reason. I speak from experience.

Here's what parties today look like for teens. The setting is a

house with no adults around to say what's wrong. The people are a

bunch of teens of both sexes. The environment is any kind of drugs and

or alcohol. These consist of hard liquor like Aftershock and Jack

Daniel's. Then there is the lighter stuff like beer, wine, and wine

coolers. When teens are in this atmosphere they know not what to do.

Most teens will just follow the crowd and do what everyone else is

Doing.

At the end of the party you are left with a bunch of driving

teens that assume they are ok and of course can drive home. Teens that

drive are in big trouble and are at big risk. I'm know that not all

of the drinking related accidents are caused because of teens.

Drunk drivers are of all ages. And I'm not trying to say that

all teens drink either. But