Drinking Age Affects Lives Of Teenagers

According to American Academy of Pediatrics, alcohol is the most commonly abused rug in children and teenagers (Kramer). The drinking age in North Dakota should stay twenty-one because teenagers bodies don’t fully develop until their early twenties. Drinking at a young age affects the lives of teenagers physically and mentally. There are many ways to help teenagers with drinking problems, but the best way to help it is therapy. Too much alcohol affects your body both physically and mentally. Too much drinking physically damages people’s liver, and mentally causes depression. According to Kramer alcohol is associated with all three leading causes of deaths among adolescents: car crashes, murder, and suicide. Not drinking at a young age will always help you I the future when it comes to getting a job, getting married, or even getting a drivers license. During adolescence a teenagers body changes physically and psychologically very fast, which lasts from puberty to full growth and maturity (Kramer). This means that drinking at a young will affect your body more because it is still maturing. Drinking as a teenager is not good because it can turn into alcohol abuse.

One problem with drinking as a teenager is that it can turn into alcohol abuse. Teenagers who drink with the same people are a result of alcohol abuse. According to Kramer most adult alcoholics begin their drinking habits as a teenager. Many people who are alcoholics are drinking because of problems they have in their lives, and drinking is the only way to get the pain to go away.. Studies have shown that the average teenager starts drinking at a sixteen (Kramer). So if the average teenager starts drinking at sixteen, why not lower the drinking age to