What works to prevent underage drinking?
Recommended interventions for preventing underage drinking include:
- Increasing alcohol taxes.
- Limiting the density of alcohol retail outlets.
- Commercial host liability laws that hold businesses that serve alcohol liable for serving minors.
- Lack of attention to policy and community factors that influence underage drinking.
- Limited public health capacity to inform communities about prevention strategies.
Policies that affect adults also affect youth
When a state has strong policies to prevent excessive alcohol consumption among adults, youth in that state tend to drink less than youth in states with weak adult-related policies. "Youth-drinking is not simply an age-specific problem, and optimal approaches to prevention include policies that address excessive drinking in the general population."
Barriers to implementing strong alcohol control policies include the commercial interests (alcohol businesses including retailers) that have the capacity to lobby against regulations. However, communities are finding success in getting local alcohol control ordinances adopted.
Barriers to implementing strong alcohol control policies include the commercial interests (alcohol businesses including retailers) that have the capacity to lobby against regulations. However, communities are finding success in getting local alcohol control ordinances adopted.
Learn more!
Another free webinar about preventing underage drinking will be offered
this fall.
September
18, 2013, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
This webinar, hosted by the U.S. Department of Education,
will explore prevention research that strongly supports the use of
comprehensive, integrated programs with multiple complementary components to
address underage drinking.
For more information and to register, visit
http://safesupportivelearning.ed.gov/events/community-coalitions-working-collaboratively-across-secondary-and-postsecondary-education.
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