In the United States, the national minimum legal age to drink and buy alcohol is currently 21 years old. Before then, even if it's just one day before your birthday, you can't purchase liquor, wine, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of friends cheering with beer - Fg Trade Latin/Getty Images 18 is the legal drinking age in most countries and it was the ...

Whether or not the legal drinking age in the U.S. should be 21 or 18 is a divisive question. On one hand, there are people who think adding alcohol to an 18 year old’s developing brain is a bad idea.

One of the biggest age limits for young Americans is the age for purchasing and drinking alcoholic beverages. The legal drinking age is 21 across the country — that's higher than all of Europe as well ...

A legal drinking age of 21 saves lives. And demands by some to lower the age limit should be ignored, a new review says. Researchers examined studies conducted since 2006 and found that a minimum ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The number of U.S. teenagers involved in fatal drunk-driving accidents has declined because of laws that raised the legal drinking age to ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - State laws that prohibit people under the age of 21 from buying or possessing alcohol, and from driving with any amount of alcohol in their system, save 732 lives each year ...