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Welcome to "Drunk Driving." This site is dedicated to everyone that has lost their lives in a drinking related crash or had their lives changed forever. The law states, in ever state, that you have to be 21 to drink and these laws have been reduced traffic death involving drivers 18-20 years old by 13 percent and have saved an estimated 20,043 lives since 1975. But, About 9.7 million people aged 12 to 20 said to be drinking alcohol in the month before a nationwide survey in the year 2000.

Also, I have found with some of the research I have done, that when a drunk driver gets in a crash and there are two or more people in the car, then the odds of someone surviving are higher, but the odds of that the person that survived is the one that was intoxicated. Just is just my option.

How Alcohol Effects the Brain?
  • The available evidence suggests that adolescents are more vulnerable than adults to the effects of alcohol on learning and memory.
  • Alcohol affects all parts of the brain, which also affects the heart rate, coordination, speech, and destruction of brain cells.
  • It has become clear over recent years that alcohol impacts both behavior and brain function differently in adolescents and adults.
  • The brain does not finish developing until a person is around 20 years old, and one of the last regions to mature is intimately involved with the ability to plan and make complex judgments.
  • Alcohol may encourage aggression by disrupting normal brain mechanisms that normally restrain impulsive behavior such as aggression.
  • The brain continues to grow through the age of 20.
  • Heavy drinking over many years may result in serious mental disorders or permanent, irreversible damage to the brain or peripheral nervous system.
  • Recent research indicates that, in contrast to previous assumptions, the brain continues to undergo a tremendous amount of development through adolescence and into young adulthood.
  • Alcohol dilutes itself in the water volume of the body in order to travel through the system. Those vital organs, like the brain, that contain a lot of water and need an ample blood supply are particularly vulnerable to the effects of alcohol.