Consequences of Adolescent Alcohol Use

Link:

The effect was almost immediate. Alcohol-related traffic fatalities increased dramatically. Highway deaths not only increased in the states where the drinking age was lower but also in the states that bordered those states.
That's when Congress stepped in and mandated a nationwide legal drinking age of 21 by threatening to withhold federal highway funding to those states that did not increase the drinking age.
The higher legal drinking age immediately prompted a decrease in underage drinking and a decrease in drinking and driving as well as alcohol-related highway fatalities.

Tags:

Article Date:

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Main menu