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.
Combat Camera Camp Johnson United States Marine Corps This series of posters features different messages to discourage underage drinking among military recruits.
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.
Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention The Enforcing the Underage Drinking Laws (EUDL) program supports and enhances efforts by States and local jurisdictions to prohibit the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages to minors.
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.
Juvenile Justice Prevention Works: Reducing Underage Drinking Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention This OJJDP publication features an article entitled, “Environmental Approaches to Reducing Underage Drinking,” by Drs. Andrew J. Treno and Harold D. Holder. The article describes environmental approaches to reducing underage drinking and their outcomes in a Community Trials project. The goals of the youth-access component were to increase community awareness of underage drinking; reduce adolescent drinking, especially in risky situations; reduce the physical availability of alcohol to minors; and increase adults’ and retail establishments’ awareness of the legal and social risks of providing alcohol to minors.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Enhanced Enforcement of Laws to Prevent Alcohol Sales to Underage Persons—New Hampshire, 1999–2004; June 4, 2004 Center 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 News @ a Glance: EUDL Program Tackles Underage Drinking Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention In 1998, Congress recognized the seriousness of underage drinking and its related problems by appropriating funds to encourage the enforcement of underage drinking laws throughout the country. Administered by OJJDP, the Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws (EUDL) program is the only Federal initiative focused exclusively on preventing underage drinking. Congress has appropriated $25 million annually for EUDL activities.
Operation Zero Tolerance Kentucky Alcoholic Beverage Control All enforcement efforts in this program are directed toward the owners and employees of businesses licensed to sell alcoholic beverages in Kentucky, to help prevent them from carelessly or intentionally selling alcohol to minors. Teenaged volunteer investigative aides assist undercover Alcoholic Beverage Control investigators in apprehending these violators by attempting to purchase alcoholic beverages.
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.
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.
Stop Impaired Driving National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Despite the tireless efforts of thousands of advocates, impaired drivers continue to kill someone every 30 minutes, nearly 50 people a day, and almost 18,000 citizens a year. NHTSA and its partners are working together to put a stop to these deadly statistics.
Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention The Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center was established by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (within the U.S. Department of Justice) to support its Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws program. The Center's mission is to provide science-based, practical, and effective training and technical assistance services to States and communities working to combat underage drinking through law enforcement and environmental strategies.
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