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Alcohol; it’s something Americans enjoy, whether it is at a party, before meals, during the football game, with our buddies, so on and so forth. Alcohol has been a part of human civilization for hundreds of thousands of years and is linked but not limited to, pleasure, and sociability in many people’s minds. Up until 1984 the legal age for people to drink was eighteen, that age was then raised up to twenty-one in order to reduce the death rate of many teenagers who were dying because of alcohol related problems. Today, many people believe that lowering the drinking age back down to eighteen would reduce and or solve the problem of binge drinking among college students. A simple answer can be conjured up, no. What many people don’t realize is that alcohol, (if started at a younger age) cause’s more severe problems to health as they mature; an eighteen year old isn’t anywhere near as mature and developed as someone who is twenty-one or older, and we need to focus on the certain type of kids who are binge drinking and fix those individuals. In a class I am taking this quarter called Lifespan psychology, we are currently learning about the negative effects alcohol has on adolescence. When drinking is started at a younger age the body becomes more dependent on the substances you put it in because if it is frequently used, your body is growing and maturing but with these substances present. According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, â€Å"the younger a person is when he or she starts drinking, the greater his or her chance is of becoming addicted to alcohol at some point in life. Hangovers from drinking and sudden withdrawal from alcohol typically produce a general state of unhappiness, with elements of anxiety ... .... Glasses, Joanne. "Alcohol and Those Under Twenty-One Don't Mix." Kirszner and Mandell 374-75. Print. Herman, Andrew. "Raise the Drinking Age to Twenty-Five." Kirszner and Mandell 376-77. Print. Kirszner, Laurie G., and Stephan R. Mandell. Practical Argument: a Text and Anthology. Boston: Bedford/St.Martins, 2011. Print. NIAAA. National Institutes of Health, 16 Jan. 2009. Web. 22 May 2011. Sanghavi, Darshak, ed. Slate. The Slate Group, 28 Aug. 2008. Web. 13 May 2011. Schorn, Daniel, ed. The Debate On Lowering The Drinking Age. CBSnews, 22 Feb. 2009. Web. 13 May 2011. Scrivo, Karen Lee. "Drinking On Campus." CQ Researcher (1998): 241-64. Web. 2 May 2011. Solomon, King. "Proverbs." NIV Holy Bible. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 2001. 359-60. Print. Voas, Robert. "There's No Benefit to Lowering the Drinking Age." Kirszner and Mandell 380-81. Print.