For years, colleges and universities and high schools
have invested in alcohol awareness programs, peer education,
and “alternative” recreational activities, yet the %
of high-risk drinking and drinking and driving has continued
at intolerable levels since the 1980s. After dropping
significantly in the 1980s (at least for awhile), when
the legal drinking age was raised to 21 in all 50 states,
the amount of teen drinking has settled in at a rate
many consider too high and a continuing health hazard.
Fake Ids and underage drinking, long a staple of the
late teens, have been in the news again since the 19
year old twin daughters of President George W. Bush,
Jenna and Barbara, had a brush with the law.
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