Comments on: Culture and Learning to Drink: What Age? http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/05/08/culture-and-learning-to-drink-what-age/ For a greater understanding of the encultured brain and body... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:12:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: James Fell http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/05/08/culture-and-learning-to-drink-what-age/#comment-11996 Mon, 10 May 2010 19:32:26 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=331#comment-11996 If the minimum drinking age is lowered to 18 in the United States (U.S.), the result will be greater availability of alcohol not only to 18-20 year olds but also to those younger than 18. Studies in the U.S. have shown that lowering the drinking age to 18 also increases alcohol-related crashes for 15- to …more 17-year-olds.

Minimum Legal Drinking Age (MLDA 21) laws save approximately 800-900 lives each year in reductions in traffic fatalities involving young drivers. Medical research shows that excessive drinking by youth aged 20 and younger may cause brain damage as well as reduce brain function. Early onset of drinking before age 21 increases the risk for future alcohol abuse, automobile crashes, and assaults, among other alcohol-related problems.

When the lives and wellbeing of so many young people are at stake it is appropriate for the federal government to step in and protect the public. The National Uniform Drinking Age 21 Act has been a balanced, effective, and popular tool in helping to combat the many problems associated with youth drinking. Repealing it would be a grave mistake.

]]> By: Student Posts Coming « Neuroanthropology http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/05/08/culture-and-learning-to-drink-what-age/#comment-5585 Fri, 22 May 2009 11:11:50 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=331#comment-5585 [...] The students covered a range of topics last year, from post-conventional outlaws and the drug war to college binge drinking and gender, stress and addiction and inequality and addiction, and finally on denial and disease and on age limits on drinking. [...]

]]> By: Robert L. Rice http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/05/08/culture-and-learning-to-drink-what-age/#comment-2087 Fri, 30 May 2008 06:48:29 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=331#comment-2087 Kids are America’s most precious and most at-risk citizens. With drugs and peer pressure facing them on a daily basis, it’s no wonder that mental illness and drug abuse is at an all time high. Problems facing American children.

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