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Australian Medical Association calls for legal drinking age to be lifted to 25
THE legal drinking age should be lifted to 25 to stop young people becoming addicted to alcohol and limit the violence associated with drunkenness, the head of the nation’s peak medical organisation says.
AMA president Dr Steve Hambleton said the human brain was still developing until the age of 25 and exposure to alcohol earlier could change a person’s addictive potential.
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5 Responses to Australian Medical Association calls for legal drinking age to be lifted to 25
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S says:
I don’t this will make any changes to the drinking age. Young adult’s will still chose to drink at an illegal age or get older friends buy it for them.
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V says:
Good move, one that may improve the quality of life for young people… but the question is how long will it take the Government to enforce it…
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Dominic says:
I can see the reasoning behind this idea but I don’t think it will work. I think we need to address the issues that are making people drink so much in the first place. Simply banning people from drinking will only create bigger problems.
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Megs says:
This is over-legislating and artificially extending childhood. Enough is enough. We have to embed respect for alcohol – and a sense of responsibility – in our culture, not in our laws.
Interesting to know, but I think it is a bit late to change the drinking age.