Do Associations Between Drinking Event Characteristics and Underage Drinking Differ by Drinking Location?

Underage Drinking

ANALYSIS: Glenn observed that this problem involved not only the subjects that he caught in violation, but also the store clerks who sell the alcohol, the police department, and the residents of the City of Plano. The harm this caused to the residents was demonstrated in police calls for service involving juvenile problems, party disturbances, noise complaints and alcohol-related traffic accide...

Preventing and reducing underage drinking.

Underage drinking: a developmental framework.

A developmental framework for understanding and addressing the problem of underage alcohol consumption is presented. The first section presents the rationale for a developmental approach, including striking age-related data on patterns of onset, prevalence, and course of alcohol use and disorders in young people. The second section examines the fundamental meaning of a developmental approach to...

Strategies to prevent underage drinking.

Alcohol use by underage drinkers is a persistent public health problem in the United States, and alcohol is the most commonly used drug among adolescents. Accordingly, numerous approaches have been developed and studied that aim to prevent underage drinking. Some approaches are school based, involving curricula targeted at preventing alcohol, tobacco, or marijuana use. Other approaches are extr...

Transitions Into Underage and Problem Drinking

Adolescents ages 10-15 experience dramatic changes in their biological, cognitive, emotional, and social development as well as in their physical and social environments. These include the physiological and psychological changes associated with puberty; further development of the brain; changes in family, peer, and romantic relationships; and exposure to new societal and cultural influences. Du...