Underage_Drinking

Underage Drinking Underage Drinking On Friday April 11, 2001 a mother and her two kids were driving on route 51 when a dark blue Cavalier rammed into the back of the car. This caused both cars to violently lose control. The mother and her two kids smacked into the side rail. The person in the blue Cavalier finally came to a stop. The mother is in critical condition and her youngest daughter is dead. Her oldest daughter is also in critical condition. The driver of the blue Caviler went to the hospital but was dead an hour later. He had an alcohol level of 2. He was only 19. Underage drinking has become an epidemic across the country. This behavior is more common in colleges. College students between the ages of 18 to 21 make up 57% of the 1400 deaths due to alcohol that occur in college students 18-24 (Hingson et al., 2002). Even though this problem seems to be serious among college students it doesn’t start here. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, first use of alcohol typically begins around the age of 13. The college campus underage, drinking, alcohol, cops, students, college, one, identification, people, over, should, feel, age, under, twenty, problem, make, color, 21, using, twenty-one, time, someone, sex, seminar, person, off, false, drinkers, california, bar, ages, tru, same, provide