Listfield, Emily. "Binge Drinking Is a Serious Problem for Underage Drinkers." Alcohol Abuse. Ed. Christine Watkins. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2012. At Issue. Rpt. from "The Underage Drinking Epidemic." www.Parade.com (12 June 2011). Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 16 Oct. 2013.
The main idea of this article is to provide some knowledge through examples on why extreme binge drinking is very bad. The author goes on throughout the article describing all the very dangerous ways young men and women in college under the age of 21 drink. She goes through the entire article talking about the "shocking" amount of underaged drinkers and how the number of adolescents binge drinking has risen over the past few decades. Cheap drinks consumed at a rapid pace in the form of jungle juice, drinking games, alcoholic energy drinks are just a few of the ways these underaged drinkers try to give their night an extra kick. As shocking as it may be to people like the author of this article that the legal drinking age doesn't make much of a difference in how many adolescents binge drink, it isn't shocking when you consider that if young adults aren't allowed to drink legally, how can they possibly know how to drink properly under the age of twenty one. This article can be very useful in pointing out the flawed ideas people have on the effects of the legal drinking age on the number of binge drinkers under the age of twenty- one.
Emily Listfield is a former magazine editor-in-chief and author of five novels. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Harper's Bazaar, Redbook, Self, Ladies' Home Journal, New York Magazine, Parade, and many other publications. She is a credible writer the I can surely include in my op-ed.
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