At this moment there are 301,525,028 people in the United States. How many of those people do you think are under the age of 21? Within that group, how many do you think drink alcohol illegally? We can say from personal experience that at least 95% of youth under the age of 21 drink alcohol regularly or have at least tried a beverage or two at one point or another before they turned or will turn 21. The truth is that each year, approximately 5,000 youth under the age of 21 die as a result of underage drinking.
Alcohol use by persons under age 21 is a major public health problem. Despite laws against underage drinking in all fifty States and despite decades of Federal, State, and local efforts to reduce underage drinking, alcohol is the most commonly used and abused drug among youth in the United States. In a recent survey, the most popular form of alcohol for teenagers is beer, followed by wine coolers and "hard" liquor (Doweiko, 307). Although drinking by persons under the......
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