Enforcing underage drinking laws can be difficult. The resources below provide useful information for combating underage drinking, developing underage drinking enforcement programs, and enforcing underage drinking laws.
Community How To Guides On Underage Drinking National Highway Traffic Safety Administration These Community How To Guides address fundamental components of planning and implementing a comprehensive underage drinking prevention program. The guides are designed to be brief, easy to read, and easy to use. Each guide contains a resource section to assist readers in obtaining additional and detailed information about the topics covered in that guide. The appendices include useful tools for each topic area that provide coalitions and organizations with a jump-start in their planning and implementation activities.
Focus On Prevention Center for Substance Abuse Prevention This guide was developed to help a wide range of groups and communities move from concerns about substance abuse to proven and practical solutions. It is a starting point that offers brief, practical, and easy-to-read information that is useful in planning and delivering prevention strategies.
Impaired Driving Safety Program National Highway Traffic Safety Administration The Impaired Driving Division develops partnerships to cooperatively save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce traffic-related health care and economic costs resulting from impaired driving.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Enhanced Enforcement of Laws to Prevent Alcohol Sales to Underage Persons—New Hampshire, 1999–2004; June 4, 2004 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention In 1984, the National Minimum Drinking Age Act (Public Law 98-363) was passed, requiring States to raise to 21 years the minimum age to purchase and publicly possess alcohol. Although the law has contributed to substantial reductions in underage drinking and alcohol-related motor-vehicle crashes, alcohol use and binge drinking rates among youths remain high in the United States, and efforts by youths to purchase alcohol from licensed establishments frequently are successful.
OJJDP: EUDL Program Tackles Underage Drinking Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention The Center for Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws can be reached here and offers many resources OJJDP has developed to help prevent and reduce underage drinking.
Safe Lanes on Campus: A Guide for Preventing Impaired Driving and Underage Drinking Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration The Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, in collaboration with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, has published Safe Lanes on Campus: A Guide for Preventing Impaired Driving and Underage Drinking. This guide addresses alcohol use by college students under the minimum legal drinking age, and driving under the influence of alcohol by college students of all ages.
SAMHSA's Office of Applied Studies (OAS) Web site on Underage Drinking Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration SAMHSA's OAS collects and reports on national and State data to assist policymakers, treatment providers and patients make informed decisions regarding the prevention and treatment of mental and substance use disorders. This specific site on underage drinking includes reports on underage drinking, detailed tables on underage and legal age drinking, SAMHSA’s National Survey on Drug Use and Health, current rates of underage drinking by race/ethnicity, region, and size of metropolitan area, and underage drinking trends by State and region.
Sober Truth On Preventing (STOP) Underage Drinking Act U.S. Congress This Act states that the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall, with input and collaboration from other appropriate Federal agencies, States; Indian tribes; territories; and public health, consumer, and alcohol beverage industry groups, annually issue a `report card' to accurately rate the performance of each State in enacting, enforcing, and creating laws, regulations, and programs to prevent or reduce underage drinking. The report card shall include ratings on outcome measures for categories related to the prevalence of underage drinking in each State.
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