Drinking Age Values and the Essay

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Accordingly, "the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that raising the drink age to 21 has reduced traffic fatalities involving 18- to 20-year-old drivers by 13% and has saved an estimated 19,121 lives since 1975." (T, 1)

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More than anything though, these statistics seem to confirm the fears of both university leaders and law enforcement agencies, who argue that age-based prohibition has made it more difficult to connect with, cooperate with and control students where alcohol use is concerned. This is a real missed opportunity for constructive oversight in which campus acquiescence to college drinking may produce a more cooperative and safer atmosphere.
It is understood that "full-time traditional-age college students drink more than people the same age who aren't in college, according to the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence," (Kinzie & Hohmann, 1) Therefore, if universities are in a position to provide designated driver programs, to provide alcohol counseling that is non-punitive and to be on the ready with medical emergency staff, they may serve to address the byproducts of alcohol use rather than to push them to the periphery of campus attention.

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