[aidenn0]

In the US if you go to the hospital for alcohol related symptoms and you are under 21, you are essentially guaranteed to get an arrest ticket for underage drinking.

Yes this is inhibiting for seeking help.

[edit] See replies, this isn't universally true.

[kinghajj]

In some states, it's only the purchase and public consumption of alcohol that's prohibited for those under 21; and consumption on private property and/or under the supervision of parents/guardians is expressly allowed.

[dragonwriter]

There may be some jurisdictions in the US where this is true, but it doesn't seem to be generally true. As this kind of thing is a matter of state law and local agency practice, there probably is no valid generalization one way or the other on the level of "in the US".

[aidenn0]

For the 3 towns in 3 different states I have lived in, this is true. I accept that this is a very small number of data points.