The alcoholics have impaired perceptions and may not have good judgmental skills. The mentioned groups have a disadvantage in one way or another and people may take advantage of their situation. They may be impeded to do something absurd out of their wish but because they do not have a sense of reason, they end up bowing to the demands given. It is cruel to take advantage of this people hence the reason why the action was brought on
Today, teens and young adults involve themselves with alcohol. This is often due to peer pressure. Alcohol is easy to abuse and is not seen as a drug like heroin or
Australia has a well-known drinking culture, and for the most part it’s viewed in a positive light, however stories in ‘The Turning’ depict the negative aspect of such a culture. More than anything, drinking is portrayed as a coping mechanism. In ‘Sand’ Max’s reasons
The main topic of this article talks about our Underage Drinking in our growing society, and what can done about it. If underage drinking is eliminated, shopping for alcohol could decrease by billions. This would end in an oversize reduction in shopper expenditures. If all adult excessive drinkers were reborn to moderate drinkers World Health Organization consume a pair of drinks every day, rather than disbursement $53.6 billion for alcohol, the expenditure would be a few billion. The loss of billions in adult shoppers for alcohol consumption to the loss of $22.5 billion in underage drinking would end in a loss of
Legalizing the green? WOULD LEGALIZING CANNABIS BE A GOOD ECONOMIC DECISION? Section 1.0: Introduction “Around 750,000 Australians use cannabis every week and approximately 300,000 smoke every day” (ABC News, 2008). The use of Cannabis in Australia has been illegal since the early 1900’s, which has had a variety of effects on the economy of Australia.
There has been many discussions all over the United States is whether they should change the drinking age from twenty-one to eighteen. Most teens will argue that they should change the age because they can go to a store or a gas station and they can buy a pack of cigarettes, a black n mild, play the lottery at the age of eighteen so they will ask so why can they not buy a beer or alcohol at the age of eighteen. Underage drinking has been out of control in the United States because teenager use fake identification cards and they will also try to go to the club with their identification card. As a teenager when I was in high school I have proof that these things happen not only in college but high school it happens more often than college students. What is
In the case of binge drinking it is considered to be apart of the Australian social culture and can be considered a norm and or a rite of passage especially for young Australians. Using the looking glass self theory, individuals may believe that heavy drinking will bring approval and acceptance from other members of society thus bringing higher self-worth through the perceived ‘social mirror”. Studies conducted in regard to peer influence on high risk behaviour has shown that young people are more likely to engage in high risk behaviour such as binge or excessive drink if their peers and close friends are also participating (Jaccard, Blanton and Dodge, 2005). This suggests that individuals are likely to engage in actions that they believe will gain approval it the eyes of their peers, therefore this study supports the argument that the looking glass concept can be applied to the issue of binge drinking. The second theory that can be used to apply the theory to binge drinking is George Herbert Meads concept of a socially derived self.
Letting young adults consume alcohol will help them get experience based on their firsthand experiences of what they saw, or what they were told or advised to drink alcohol more responsibly and maturely. By restricting young 18-20 year old’s from drinking even though they are considered “adults” will lead to drinking
But while it has succeeded in that, it is also believed that tougher rules, such as DUI rules and seatbelt safety rules have also played a part in this decrease. However, this higher drinking age hasn’t reduced drinking, its only “driven it underground,” Gabrielle Glaser states in her NY Times article. It has been driven underground to the riskiest settings, high school parties and frat parties that are unsupervised. This age raise segregates the drinking away from adults that can model moderation in drinking. If an 18-year-old high school senior is shown by his/her parent(s) how to drink responsibly and in moderation, I believe that it would greatly help in reducing the chance of making bad decisions by overdoing it, such as driving while drinking.
Research scaffold Source Number Bibliographic reference: https: http://theconversation.com/strong-evidence-for-raising-drinking-age-but-little-support-14556 Notes Reflections The drinking age is at the moment 18, and majority of people want this changed to 21! The commonwealth government has been recently called by Australians doctors and academics to raise the legal drinking age to 21 to reduce the risk associated with alcohol. The drinking age should be changed because young people are at most risk to the effects of heavy drinking which causes injuries, car accidents, violence and in some cases, suicide.
“Malcolm and Antell (2001) argue that alcohol abuse and its related problems are not entirely objective phenomena; they also involve interpretation and stigmatization of deviant behavior” (Leon-Guerrero 2014). This could be because we view our older siblings, parents, and friends drinking and changes our perspective. For example, drinking is seen in media like music videos, television commercials and reality shows. This attracts the adolescents thinking drinking is a cool thing to do. For instance, during high school if you drink, you would be socially accepted but if you don’t then you can be considered an outcast.
If that is the cast why is the legal drinking age 18 and not 21? Nearly 1 in 14 Australians drink every day. Alcohol has lots of effects on your body. Such as in the long term you can get cancer (bowel, breast, throat, mouth, liver), liver disease or cardiovascular disease, stroke, dependence and mental health problems.
89 young adults of mixed ethnicity , occupation , class and gender aged between 18-25 in four geographical locations in the UK between 2006 and 2007 were interviewed and asked to discuss their social lives and narrate one drunk story of theirs. Discussions focused mainly on going out and alcohol consumption which emerged as a central feature. The intention of the essay was not to underplay the personal and social consequences of damaging patterns of drinking ,
In some countries, like in Europe the drinking age is set at 18. Even though people in the US think this is insane, this set age has more positive effects than people think it would. It is known that binge drinking is a problem in the US since it has the highest rate in the world for binge drinking. In Europe, teenagers get their license at age 18, and some drinking ages are lower than that, they figure out how to control their drinking before the drive. Unlike in the US, kids drink and then drive because they either have to be home by curfew or they are too scared to call their parents for a ride, and admit they had been under the
“ [The drinking age] is unfavorable because it forces youth to consume alcohol in unsupervised places that are risky and consumption may be abused.” The idea is, if the drinking age is lowered, youth will be able to drink in open, public places that can be supervised by others. By being public, it would decrease the risky behavior seen with alcohol in private, unsupervised settings. Pomata also asserts, “The age restriction inspires undesirable activities just as the National Prohibition Act did.” Some undesirable activities that are associated with underage drinking include the making and distributing of fake ID’s.
