Alcohol has affected the lives of humans in their own societies every day since its appearance in the Stone Age, perhaps even before. Although alcohol is not illegal, it was when the Eighteenth Amendment was first ratified due to alcoholism. Alcoholism affects those who abuse alcohol through excessive consumption bordering on mental illness and compulsive behavior that ultimately results in alcohol dependence. This affects many different groups of people, but it also affects high school and college students. They should not be affected given that the legal drinking age is twenty-one, but they are actually dissuaded from their innocence. Society depends on those of us who do not consume alcohol to reduce social, economic and health problems throughout society. When government alcohol officials realize that alcohol needs more monitoring and warnings, then and only then can this steep slope finally begin to decline. Consumption of alcohol at social events is widespread in society. When a group of adults have a party or get together, there is almost always alcohol involved, like at the bowling alley, where they sell several bottles of beer in a bucket. Adults tend to invite their other adult friends to a soccer game and they drink too much, and due to the harmful effects of drinking, drunk driving kills lives in the United States every twenty -two minutes. In Christian's to Recovery,: "The damage caused by alcohol-impaired drivers is the same as if a Boeing 747 with more than 500 passengers crashed every eight days, killing everyone" (CR, " Impacts") Children know how much their parents or their parents drinks, and it is precisely for this reason that alcohol should... middle of paper... their work and turn to alcohol, or even worse when an organ begins to fail. Even though it seems that alcohol is a common occurrence in this world, you should not think twice about it. Works Cited “Alcohol”. KidsHealth - Alcohol. Ed. Steven Dowshen. The Nemours Foundation, June 1, 2013. Web. April 1, 2014.Recovering Christians. “The Impact of Alcohol Abuse on American Society.” Official website of Victorious Alcoholics Headquarters. Righteous Alcoholics, nd Web. April 3, 2014. Cook, Philip J. and Michael J. Moore. "Health Affairs". The economics of alcohol abuse and alcohol control policies. Health Affairs, nd Web. April 3, 2014.National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. “The effects of alcohol on the body”. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, nd Web. April 3. 2014.