I strongly opposite the statement about lowering drinking age will make mamaging on alcohol more enforicible and more enffective. We see Gordy's tragedy is not the result of restriction of underage drinking but the distorted value about drinking . Many teenagers saw drinking as a excting risk or a transformation to adulthood, evenmore as the appeal of individualism. MacCardell's idea of giving drinking license to teenagers has nothing to do with alternationg the false attitudes of drinkging. He ignored some of the implications of their recommendations, fail to acknowledge their own complicity in the campus drinking problem, and ultimately gloss over better solutions to bingeing. In the campus, without restriction parents. teenagers actually share more freedom than usual. If the act of lowering age of drinking is excuted, the potential risk about drinking in campus might be rampant. Lowering the drinking age would have dangerous long-term consequences: Early teen drinkers are not only more susceptible to alcoholism but to developing the disease earlier and more quickly than others. A person's brain does not stop developing until their early to mid-20s. During this period, alcohol negatively affects all parts of the brain, includcognitive and decision-making abilities as well as coordination and memory. Adolescent drinkers not only do worse academically but are also at greater risk for social problems like depression, violence, and suicidal thoughts. Actually, lowering age drinking will be not helpful at all.
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