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Despite
prevention efforts, underage-drinking parties do
occur. When they do, law enforcement agencies can
utilize the controlled dispersal plan as a method
for closing underage alcohol parties. Controlled
dispersal is a systematic operational plan using
the concepts of zero-tolerance and education to
safely and efficiently close the underage-drinking
party. A successful controlled dispersal results in
effective zero-tolerance enforcement by placing
appropriate charges against the violator. It also
minimizes the potential for disaster by ensuring
that the party attendees are provided a safe ride
home. The proper implementation of the controlled
dispersal plan will benefit your community and its
youth by reducing the negative consequences
associated with underage drinking. Law
enforcement agencies that are implementing
controlled party dispersal operations as a
proactive strategy to reduce underage
drinking-related problems can use this database to
enter data related to dispersal operations. This
database collects information related to each
dispersal operation your agency conducts, such as
number of underage drinkers at the party, number of
participants arrested and the source of alcohol,
can be stored into the database. This database is
essentially a reporting form that is easy to use
and easy to retrieve information. This database
allows you to store, analyze, and report data
related to your controlled party dispersal over
time and can be useful to educating the public as
to the effectiveness of your controlled dispersal
strategy. The database can also: Obtain an ID
and Password. (Click on the New User button to
complete form.) Once you have
an ID and Password, simply fill out the information
requested in the database. Prior to your next
controlled dispersal operation, you should
familiarize yourself with the questions that are
asked in the database. You may want to print a copy
of the database and take it with you on your next
controlled party dispersal operation. After a
controlled dispersal operation, please fill out the
information requested in the database and hit
submit. The information for that operation is now
stored in the database and you have access to the
program for data entry, analysis, and reports. You
will only have access to the information that you
enter. If you any
questions related to this database, please contact
Bill Patterson at E-Mail
or 919-265-2623. Underage
Drinking in Oregon -
Facts
Adolescent
Treatment Admissions: 1992 and
2002
Alcohol
and Development in Youth
Alcohol
Cost Calculator for Kids
The Alcohol
Cost Calculator for Kids, a web-based application,
allows communities to arm themselves with
locally-relevant data by immediately generating a
report on the extent of serious drinking problems
and alcoholism among adolescents. Research
scientists at George Washington University Medical
Center created the tool to help parents, teachers
and law makers calculate the toll of alcohol
problems in their community. Alcohol
Dependence or Abuse and Age at First
Use
Alcohol
Use and Delinquent Behaviors among
Youths
Center
for Science in the Public Interest’s Alcohol
Policies Project
The Alcohol
Policies Project of the Center for Science in the
Public Interest seeks to curb the consequences of
drinking through a comprehensive,
prevention-oriented policy strategy. This Web site
is geared toward alcohol policy advocates,
providing updated news stories and action alerts.
Further, the site includes factsheets on alcohol
and youth, binge drinking, advertising, and
taxes. The Center
for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) produced
a new resource - the Factbook on State Beer Taxes -
aimed at informing the debate on alcohol taxes and
other alcohol policy issues. Targeted toward
preventionists, policymakers, educators, and
journalists, the book provides data on beer-tax
rates across the country and presents ideas about
the appropriate role of the alcohol industry in
societal attempts to combat alcohol
problems. Center
for Substance Abuse
Prevention
CSAP works
with States and communities to develop
comprehensive prevention systems that create
healthy communities in which people enjoy a quality
life. This includes supportive work and school
environments, drug- and crime-free neighborhoods,
and positive connections with friends and
family. Center
on Alcohol Marketing and
Youth
The Center on
Alcohol Marketing and Youth at Georgetown
University monitors the marketing practices of the
alcohol industry to focus attention and action on
industry practices that jeopardize the health and
safety of America's youth. Our resource
for national and local issues. Community
Anti-Drug Coalitions of
America
CADCA's
mission is to build and strengthen the capacity of
community coalitions to create safe, healthy and
drug-free communities. The organization supports
its members with technical assistance and training,
public policy, media strategies and marketing
programs, conferences and special
events. Drinking
In America: Myths, Realities, and Prevention
Policy
This is a
UDETC Publication. Driving
Under the Influence (DUI) among Young
Persons
The Drug
Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) is a public health
surveillance system that monitors drug-related
visits to hospitals emergency departments and
drug-related deaths investigated by medical
examiners and coroners. Harvard
School of Public Health College Alcohol
Study
This Web site
provides findings from Harvard School of Public
Health's College Alcohol Study. This national study
of over 14,000 college students gauges the
prevalence of binge drinking and alcohol-related
problems. The Web site provides full access to the
1998 and 1995 reports, and lists other published
findings from the survey, including the prevalence
of gun possession among college-age
drinkers. High
School and Youth Trends
Higher
Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse
and Violence Prevention
This
comprehensive Web site funded by the U.S.
Department of Education includes documents,
resources, and links on preventing alcohol and drug
abuse on college campuses. Programmatic information
such as setting policies, assessing the campus
environment and extent of the problem, and program
evaluation are included. In addition, information
is provided on specific prevention strategies, such
as social marketing, normative education, and
environmental strategies. Leadership
to Keep Children Alcohol
Free
Leadership to
Keep Children Alcohol Free, a unique coalition o
Governor's Spouses, Federal agencies, and public
and private organizations, is an initiative to
prevent the use of alcohol by children ages 9 to
15. It is the only national effort that focuses on
alcohol use in this age group. Instead of
targeting high school students with a message,
Youth In Action looks at the whole environment that
seems to condone underage drinking. From the store
clerk who doesn't check IDs, to the police officer
who might pour out the beer and send teens home, to
the adults who don't mind buying beer for a kid who
slips him an extra $10 -- YIA teams look for
community solutions instead of focusing their
attention on their peers. The Marin
Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Other
Drug Problems addresses alcohol policy issues
through media advocacy, community training, serving
as a watchdog for the industry's marketing
activities, and the dissemination of information
and research. Its Web site includes information
about the organization, full-text documents, and
access to its Alcohol Industry & Policy
Database, which indexes news articles about the
alcohol industry's activities. The Marin
Institute works to create a physical and social
environment that helps young people and others make
healthy choices, and that promotes responsible
action by government and the alcohol industry.
Environmental prevention is an essential part of a
comprehensive campaign to prevent alcohol problems
that also includes treatment and other prevention
strategies focusing on individual
behavior. Monitoring
the Future is an ongoing study of the behaviors,
attitudes, and values of American secondary school
students, college students, and young adults. Each
year, a total of approximately 50,000 8th, 10th,
and 12th grade students are surveyed (12th graders
since 1975, and 8th and 10th graders since 1991).
In addition, annual follow-up questionnaires are
mailed to a sample of each graduating class for a
number of years after their initial
participation. Mothers
Against Drunk Driving
MADD's Web
site includes information about MADD's initiatives
to prevent impaired driving, reduce underage
drinking, and provide assistance to victims of
alcohol-related traffic crashes. In addition, one
can find a compilation of facts and statistics on
underage drinking and traffic crashes, daily news
summaries, and a comprehensive set of links to
related Web sites. National
Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
NHTSA
provides leadership to the motor vehicle and
highway safety community through the development of
innovative approaches to reducing motor vehicle
crashes and injuries. National
Latino Council on Alcohol and
Tobacco
LCAT's
mission is to combat alcohol and tobacco problems
and their underlying causes in Latino communities.
LCAT is unique since it is the only Latino national
organization dedicated solely to reducing the harm
caused by alcohol and tobacco in the Latino
community through research, advocacy, policy
analysis, community education, training, and
information dissemination. NIAAA’s
college drinking information including the A Call
to Action Report
A one-stop
resource for comprehensive research-based
information on issues related to alcohol abuse and
binge drinking among college students. Reducing
Underage Drinking: A Collective
Responsibility
Alcohol use
by young people is extremely dangerous - both to
themselves and society at large. Underage alcohol
use is associated with traffic fatalities,
violence, unsafe sex, suicide, educational failure,
and other problem behaviors that diminish the
prospects of future success, as well as health
risks - and the earlier teens start drinking, the
greater the danger. Despite these serious concerns,
the media continues to make drinking look
attractive to youth, and it remains possible and
even easy for teenagers to get access to
alcohol. Why is this
dangerous behavior so pervasive? What can be done
to prevent it? What will work and who is
responsible for making sure it happens? Reducing
Underage Drinking addresses these questions and
proposes a new way to combat underage alcohol use.
It explores the ways in which many different
individuals and groups contribute to the problem
and how they can be enlisted to prevent it.
Reducing Underage Drinking will serve as both a
game plan and a call to arms for anyone with an
investment in youth health and safety. Snapshot
of Annual High-Risk College Drinking
Consequences
State
data of Alcohol, Tobacco and Illegal Drug
Use
Underage
Drinking in Rural Areas
University
of Minnesota Alcohol Epidemiology
Program
The Alcohol
Epidemiology Program (AEP) is a research program in
the Division of Epidemiology and Community health
within the School of Public Health at the
University of Minnesota (Minneapolis campus). The
mission of the AEP is to conduct advanced research
to discover effective community and policy
interventions to reduce alcohol-related social and
health problems. Youth
Drinking Rates and Problems: A Comparison of
European Countries and the United
States
This is a
UDETC Publication. Youth
Risk Behavior Surveillance
System
The YRBSS was
developed in 1990 to monitor priority health risk
behaviors that contribute markedly to the leading
causes of death, disability, and social problems
among youth and adults in the United
States. |
Undersage
Drinking Enforement Training Center
