<p>If one really values the young adults in this discussion then it is clear that these policies (notifying parents), as a rule, are not desirable. Notifying parents and implementing other punishments because one receives medical treatment for the overconsumption of alcohol would encourage students to not seek out help for their friends. Creating a framework that discourages seeking medical attention will aggravate the problems of binge drinking (such as dying from alcohol poisoning) more than it would stop those problems. Parents must be able to put their good intentions aside and endorse a framework that encourages young adults to seek out help.<br>
To the point on the drinking limit and declines in fatalities, the statistics are often misleading. “Researchers Peter Asch and David Levy put it, the “minimum legal drinking age is not a significant-or even a perceptible-factor in the fatality experience of all drivers or of young drivers.” In an in-depth and unrefuted study Asch and Levy prove that raising the drinking age merely transferred lost lives from the 18-20 bracket to the 21-24 age group.” To add to this claim, “Prohibition did not work then and prohibition for young people under the age of 21 is not working now.” <a href=“http://www.indiana.edu/~engs/articles/cqoped.html[/url]”>http://www.indiana.edu/~engs/articles/cqoped.html</a>. Most college students do not drink heavily every day and night. Drinking, and drug patterns tend to be more of a result of the qualities of a specific generation rather than completely dependent upon government policy (although such policy can aggravate or alleviate problems). In short, college students are not damned to booze-dom, most are responsible drinkers.</p>