Nation's Health Review

I read an article from the October 2008 edition of the magazine. The article was entitled "Choose accountability: Keep the legal U.S. drinking age at 21". It was an article written by the president of the APHA. The article discussed how there have been quite a few college presidents pushing congress to lower the legal drinking age to 18. They attribute their reasoning to their inability to control the binge drinking that has been going on on their campuses. The Harvard School of Public Health did a study that found that binge drinking had to do with the culture of the campus, and found that campuses that had Greek Life as well as intercollegiate athletics had much higher rates of binge drinking. Personally, I do not think that the drinking age should be lowered. I think that students are going to drink regardless of their age and whether it is legal or not. This is just going to allow more people to be outwardly drunk in public and able to make bad decisions like drunk driving, or participating in risky behavior like unprotected sex. I think that if schools are having problems with binge drinking they should make some changes within their respective university like increasing education and awareness of binge drinking.