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Back to School: The ABCs of Resisting Peer Pressure To Drink
It’s back to school time—time to think about skills and tools for academic success. Studies show that underage drinking is associated with academic failure. Make your school a safe place where students can thrive academically, grow personally, and mature socially. Help youth learn skills to resist the pressure to drink and give them reasons not to drink.
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College Drinking – Help Change the Culture
With the back-to-school season fast approaching, more and more colleges, universities, and their students are taking steps to prevent underage drinking and its harmful consequences. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism’s College Drinking: Changing the Culture Web site provides a one-stop resource for parents and others who need comprehensive research-based information and valuable resources on alcohol abuse and binge drinking among college students—and what to do about it. Links to underage drinking prevention resources for campuses and communities are included. To learn more, go to: http://www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov/NIAAACollegeMaterials/parentBrochure.aspx.
Parents Hold the Key To Preventing Underage Drinking
Parental disapproval is the key reason children who do not drink give for their decision to avoid alcohol. Even so, a recent national study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration shows that 1 in 16 underage drinkers was given alcoholic beverages by their parents in the past month. To learn more about underage drinking and what you can do to prevent it, select the “Parents” tab from the red navigational bar at the top of this page—or go to www.stopalcoholabuse.gov/parents.aspx—for free materials and online resources to start talking with your children about the consequences of underage alcohol use.
New Nationwide Report Estimates that 40 Percent of Underage Drinkers Received Free Alcohol from Adults Over 21
More than 40 percent of the nation’s estimated 10.8 million underage current drinkers (persons aged 12 to 20 who drank in the past 30 days) were provided free alcohol by adults 21 or older, according to a nationwide report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released on June 26, 2008. The study also indicates that one in 16 underage drinkers (6.4 percent or 650,000) was given alcoholic beverages by their parents in the past month.
For the SAMHSA News Release containing the report's key findings and quotes from Acting Surgeon General Steven K. Galson, M.D., M.P.H, and SAMHSA Administrator Terry Cline, Ph.D. go to: http://www.samhsa.gov/newsroom/advisories/0806250013.aspx.
The complete SAMHSA report is available at: http://oas.samhsa.gov/underage2k8/toc.htm.
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance — United States, 2007
A new report summarizes results from the 2007 national Youth Risk Behavior Survey and trends between 1991–2007 in selected risk behaviors, including underage drinking. The report is published as part of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report series, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention prepares. It focuses on priority health-risk behaviors, which are behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among youth and adults and often are established during childhood and adolescence, extend into adulthood, are interrelated, and are preventable. Click on the following link to access the report: www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/yrbs/pdf/yrbss07_mmwr.pdf. Please see underage drinking information on pages 14, 15, 23, and 33. See underage drinking tables on pages 42, 71, 72, 73, 74, 87, 88, 93, and 94.
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