Many youth drink with the goal to get drunk. They are not “wired” in the brain to assess risk and to be responsible...
When the “forbidden fruit” is no longer forbidden, youth simply drink more. In states where the drinking age was 18, young people drank...
Teen alcohol use kills 4,300 people each year – that’s more than all illegal drugs combined. References Sacks JJ, Gonzales KR, Bouchery EE, Tomedi...
Actually, in Europe, young people have higher intoxication rates than in the United States, and less than a quarter had lower or equivalent rates...
Kids who start drinking young are seven times more likely to be in an alcohol-related crash. MADD knows that by preventing underage drinking today,...
Some states permit parents to do this with their own child (rarely, if ever, with someone else’s child), but there’s no evidence that...
History says no. When states had lower legal drinking ages in the U.S., the underage drinking problem was worse.3 For example, before the 21...
Many activities have ages of initiation. A person must wait until age 16 to start driving, age 18 to marry without parental consent,...
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. “Traffic Safety Facts 2017: Alcohol-Impaired Driving.” Washington DC: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2017. https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/812630
Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol and Illicit Drugs. 2014. https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/report_2688/ShortReport-2688.html
