Underage Drinking: A Review of Trends and Prevention Strategies

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• 作者：Frances M. Harding¹ ; Ralph W. Hingson ; ScD ; MPH² ; Michael Klitzner ; PhD³ ; James F. Mosher ; JD⁴ ; Jorielle Brown ; PhD¹ ; Robert M. Vincent ; MSEd¹ ; ^{robert.vincent@samhsa.hhs.gov" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Elizabeth Dahl ; JD³ ; Carol L. Cannon ; MA³
• 刊名：American Journal of Preventive Medicine
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：51
• 期：4_supp_S2
• 页码：S148-S157
• 全文大小：584 K

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Underage drinking and its associated problems have profound negative consequences for underage drinkers themselves, their families, their communities, and society as a whole, and contribute to a wide range of costly health and social problems. There is increased risk of negative consequences with heavy episodic or binge drinking. Alcohol is a factor related to approximately 4,300 deaths among underage youths in the U.S. every year. Since the mid-1980s, the nation has launched aggressive underage drinking prevention efforts at the federal, state, and local levels, and national epidemiologic data suggest that these efforts are having positive effects. For example, since 1982, alcohol-related traffic deaths among youth aged 16–20 years have declined by 79%. Evidence-based or promising strategies for reducing underage drinking include those that limit the physical, social, and economic availability of alcohol to youth, make it illegal for drivers aged <21 years to drive after drinking, and provide mechanisms for early identification of problem drinkers. Strategies may be implemented through a comprehensive prevention approach including policies and their enforcement, public awareness and education, action by community coalitions, and early brief alcohol intervention and referral programs. This paper focuses on underage drinking laws and their enforcement because these constitute perhaps the most fundamental component of efforts to limit youth access to and use of alcohol.