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Binge U.: Thursday, September 27, 12-1 p.m.
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In 2008, 100 college and university presidents signed a petition to have the national drinking age lowered to 18 in an attempt to better control the underage drinking on their campuses. Met with resistance from groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the idea has gained little traction since then. Meanwhile, in the first two weeks of the new semester, 28 University of Maryland students were hospitalized due to alcohol poisoning. A look at binge drinking on college campuses, how drinking habits of young people in the U.S. compares with those in other countries, and how lowering the drinking age might help curb excessive drinking. With Barrett Seaman, the author of Binge: Campus Life in an Age of Disconnection and Excess and president of Choose Responsibility; and David Jernigan, associate professor and director of the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth, John’s Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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The drinking age should be 18
My name is Edwin Bonilla and I live in Manassas town, Virginia.
If you read research in support of the drinking age and it involved rats or mice, be skeptical about it because we are humans. We are not close to rats or mice.
The drinking age should be 18. David Jernigan gave too much attention about drinking by girls and boys who are 13-17 years old. They shouldn't drink alcohol. If a parent saw their daughter or son who is 13-17 with an alcoholic beverage, then the parent should take it away, give a scolding and give a punishment. Although David Jernigan supports the ageist drinking age and is an ageist for calling college students "kids", he has said good recommendations that could go with a drinking age of 18. There is potential for a successful drinking age of 18 if advertisement about alcohol is more regulated, if there is a price floor for alcohol and if there is a strong alcohol education requirement. Binge drinking by college students will decrease significantly if the drinking age is 18 and if those policies were put in place. Almost all binge drinkers in college would stop binge drinking. David Jernigan said that the brain doesn't develop until sometime is in their 20s but that's not true. The brain develops into the 30s-4os. He said that the drinking age saves lives but if he went into statistics about fatalities because of alcohol in colleges, then I think a correction might be made. The drinking age should be 18 because young women and young men who are 18 are mature enough to drink alcohol if the policies that I said are in place. Their brain is also developed enough.
Binge Drinking
I just sent my 18 year old daughter to Sweden for a year of study. The drinking age is a gradual introduction - 18 in a bar /restaurant, 20 to buy in the licour store to drink elsewhere. The teens have a much healthier attitude towards dirinking, associating it with a couple of drinks with dinner etc. at a younger age. It's 'demystifies' if you will. In addidtion the culture of not driving while under the influence is firmly in place.
Johanna
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On behalf of Choose Responsibility's web team, thank you for dedicating an hour to this important topic! We look forward to an interesting conversation.
All the best, the CR team
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