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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Drinking is so much worse now.

I live in the bar area of Clarendonand there are tons of adults 22-30 stumbling around completely incoherent—even in the middle of the day.

Ambulances came 3 times this weekend on our street for adults that wouldn’t stop throwing up, wandering in the middle of the street, etc., passed out on the curb.  I saw one topple over in a driveway.  My kids saw a 20-something woman fall off the drunk trolley and get dragged before her friends noticed and I’m yelling “man down” at 2pm on a Saturday in front of Whitlows. And this is not isolated event.

I am 50 and did bar crawls (they were a few times per year—not almost every month like now)—and parties in my youth and it was an incredibly rare occurrence for things to ever get that out of control.

I have College age nieces and nephews and the stories they have—kids in rehab are eye-opening.

I have read several articles that surmise it’s the helicopter generation lashing out, coupled with social media.

I tell ya, my tweens have been scared straight watching drunks handcuffed, drunk drivers wrestled to the ground.  They don’t see it as glamorous.  I remember thinking “oh that never happens as a teen” because I lived in the suburbs and didn’t see the negative aspects—just the fun.  It’s easy to reinforce how bad it is when you watch it out your window.[/quote]

Honestly, I think that the raised drinking age has backfired big time.  Young adults at college used to be able to go out to a bar and buy themselves beers.  Now they are forced to go to underage drinking parties, sneaking around like HS kids.  HS kids and even some parents figure - well if the young college adults are drinking illegally, what's so bad about HS kids drinking, too.

There is a difference between a 15 year old HS sophomore and a 20 year old college junior but the law treats them both as underage kids.  When these "kids" actually hit 21 and they can finally go out to bars they go a little wild with that new taste of freedom....but unlike college freshman, these older "kids" have established tolerances for alcohol.[/quote]

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