Essay On Underage Drinking In Australia

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Underage Drinking is a huge problem in Australia, but it seems to be a problem that nobody has an answer for. Many suggest that raising the drinking age or harsher punishments is the solution. Underage Drinking is a huge problem in Australia, but it seems to be a problem that nobody has an answer for. Many suggest that raising the drinking age or harsher punishments is the solution. Underage drinking is when a person under the legal age consumes alcohol which for Australia is 18. In Australia, the average that youth start drinking is 15.5 years of age while the age bracket of 14-19 binge drink at least once a month. Over 90% of Australian youth over the age of 14 has consumed alcohol and increases to 96% by age 17 years. While 22% of 14 year olds who are current drinkers consume alcohol at levels exceeding the Australian Alcohol Guidelines, and peaking at 44% among 17 year olds. The 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that among high school students, during the past 30 days 39% drank some amount of alcohol, 22% binge drank, 8% drove after drinking alcohol and 24% rode with a driver who had been drinking alcohol. Even though it was an American survey the results are still compelling. In 2008, around one in six Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 15 years and over 17% drank at chronic risky/high risk levels. The impacts on underage drinkers are…show more content…
Most ads for alcohol have drink responsible written on them but it is in small writing in the corner. Alcohol companies aren’t the only to blame, liquor store ads showing prices and giving specials encourages youth to buy the alcohol because it is in the prize range of young people who can scab a couple of bucks off their parents. It is even easier to get alcohol; most kids these days just wait out the front of the liquor store and pay some stranger to get it for
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