I believe the best solution is starting driver education at a very young age. If the schools instill the consequences of drunk driving in the impressionable minds of the children, they will be prepared to deal with the issue when the time comes. It is very similar to how drug awareness programs are starting in elementary school. Possibly, if society took driver education programs as serious as they do to drug awareness, we could save so many more lives. I also feel that if the children were explained to that they should be proud of who they are and to be confident with themselves, they would be less likely to fall prey to all the uncertainties and pitfalls that adolescence entails.
Adolescents driving under the influence is a grave problem.
So many unnecessary young lives are torn away from us. Unfortunately, not enough studies have been done to find out the root of what motivates adolescents to behave as they do in drinking and driving situations. This paper will not give all the answers to this enormous problem, but instead reveal that something more needs to be done to solve it.