Alcohol age should be decreased

More What is alcohol? The term "alcohol" has been synonymous with "spirituous" liquids for the past years. The history of alcohol consumption, along with codes limiting its consumption go back to B. There are four types of alcohol:

High School and Youth Trends Revised December This year's Monitoring the Future MTF survey of drug use and attitudes among 8th, 10th, and 12th graders in hundreds of schools across the country continues to report promising trends, with past-year use of illicit drugs other than marijuana holding steady at the lowest levels in over two decades—5.

This is down from peak rates of Last year, use of many substances reached the lowest levels since the survey's inception or since the survey began asking about them and held steady inor in some cases, dropped even more.

Substances at historic low levels of use include alcohol and cigarettes, heroin, prescription opioids, MDMA Ecstasy or Mollymethamphetamine, amphetamines, and sedatives.

Other illicit drugs showed five-year declines, such as synthetic marijuana, hallucinogens other than LSD, and over-the-counter cough and cold medications.

Five-year trends, however, did reveal an increase in LSD use among high school seniors, although use still remains lower compared to its peak in The survey also found a general decline in perceived risk of harm from using a number of substances and declining disapproval of people who use them.

For example, the percentage of 8th graders who think that occasional use of synthetic marijuana or over-the-counter cough and cold medications is less than it was last year and in prior years.

Among 10th graders, there was a decrease in the proportion of students who perceive a risk of harm when trying inhalants, powder cocaine, or over-the-counter cough and cold medications once or twice. High school seniors reported reduced perception of harm in occasional cocaine, heroin, and steroid use, and reduced disapproval of trying LSD.

Opioids Despite the continued rise in opioid and overdose deaths and high levels of opioid misuse among adults, lifetime, past-year, and past-month misuse of prescription opioids narcotics other than heroin dropped significantly over the last five years in 12th graders the only grade surveyed in this category.

Vicodin use notably dropped by 51 percent in 8th graders, 67 percent in 10th graders and 74 percent in 12th graders. Interestingly, teens also think these drugs are not as easy to get as they used to be. Marijuana Past-year marijuana use declined among 10th graders and remains unchanged among 8th and 12th graders compared to five years ago, despite the changing state marijuana laws.

Past-year use of marijuana reached its lowest levels in more than two decades among 8th and 10th graders in ; the one slight increase in was past-month use among 10th graders, which returned to levels after a decrease in Daily use of marijuana has declined among 8th graders over the past five years to 0.

Among 12th graders, 6 percent continue to report daily use, which corresponds to about 1 in 16 high school seniors. Among all grades, perceptions of harm and disapproval around marijuana use continue to decrease, with a smaller percentage 8th and 10th graders thinking that regular marijuana use is harmful, and fewer 10th and 12th graders disapproving of regular marijuana use.

This year, daily marijuana use exceeds daily cigarette use among 8th 0. This is the first year in which daily marijuana use appeared to outpace daily cigarette use among 8th graders-this flip occurred in 10th graders in and in 12th graders inreflecting a steep decline in daily cigarette use and fairly stable daily marijuana use.

Alcohol Alcohol use and binge drinking continued to show a significant five-year decline among all grades. Past month use of alcohol was reported by 8. Daily alcohol use and binge drinking defined as consuming five or more drinks sometime in the past two weeks also decreased significantly among all grades between and Unlike previous years, however, there were not significant declines in alcohol use between and Alcohol drinking age should be decreased National University July 14, The drinking age should be decreased from age 21 to 18 years old in the United States.

The current age limit is OK, but in this matter an increased age is better than a decreased age limit. Young adults' brains aren't fully developed to handle alcohol, and alcohol isn't a must in the first place.

The world could be a better place without alcohol anyway, let alone it . The term "alcohol" has been synonymous with "spirituous" liquids for the past years. The history of alcohol consumption, along with codes limiting its consumption go back to B.C. As we get older and our bodies change, our ability to tolerate alcohol changes too.

The changes you face as you get older are important to understand when thinking about drinking alcohol. The current age limit is OK, but in this matter an increased age is better than a decreased age limit. Young adults' brains aren't fully developed to handle alcohol, and alcohol isn't a must in the first place.

The world could be a better place without alcohol anyway, let alone it . Addressing the Minimum Legal Drinking Age (MLDA) in College Communities. INTRODUCTION Enforcement of age laws has multiple ramifications in college settings, where underage students, often a majority on campus, co-mingle with students of legal age.