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... These efforts to prevent drinking were disregarded and created social problems such as widespread disrespect for law and the development of binge drinking. These laws were for everyone in the United States, not only for citizens under the legal drinking age. ...
There are two different positions on the National Minimum Purchase Age Act, passed in 1984. This law encourages individual states to enforce a minimum legal drinking age of 21. ... However, many people suspect that a higher drinking age results in alcohol abuse and binge drinking among adolescents. ... These variables may explain some of the association between drinking age laws and alcohol use.
Findings have indicated that raising the legal drinking age (LDA) may have three effects: delaying legal access to alcohol among pre-LDA adolescents, preventing traumatic deaths that occur with legal access and delaying the onset of heavy drinking and associated fatal injuries that can occur with experience (Jones, Pieper & Robertson, 1992, p. ... Several studies have shown that traffic crashes increased significantly among teenagers after the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) was lowered. ... Of all the analyses that reported significant effects, 98% found that higher drinking ages were associated with lower rates of traffic crashes (Wagenaar & Toomey, 2002, p. ... This evidence suggests that higher legal drinking ages reduce alcohol consumption.
There was a significant inverse relationship found between the legal drinking age and other outcomes. The number of problems increased as the legal age was lowered and as the legal age was raised, the number of problems decreased (Wagenaar & Toomey, 2002, p.
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