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Research – Brain Research   Adolescent Intermittent Alcohol Exposure: Persistence of Structural and Functional Hippocampal Abnormalities into Adulthood http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acer.12725/abstract Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. Article first published online April 27, 2015. DOI: 10.1111/acer.12725.Alcohol abuse during adolescence may render individuals at heightened risk for subsequent alcohol abuse disorders, cognitive dysfunction, or other neurological impairments by irreversibly…

The 4th Annual National Leadership Conference theme was United For Success: Next Steps in Enforcing the Underage Drinking Laws. The conference took place from September 18-20, 2003 in Atlanta, Georgia. View the Final Program

  Youth Drinking in the United States: Relationships With Alcohol Policies and Adult Drinking http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2015/05/26/peds.2015-0537 Pediatrics. Published online June 1, 2015 (doi: 10.1542/peds.2015-0537).This study examined whether stronger alcohol policy environments were inversely associated with youth drinking, and if this relationship was partly explained by adult drinking. Researchers assigned Alcohol Policy Scale (APS) scores that characterized…

Nowhere in America are the effects of heavy episodic drinking more in evidence than at colleges and universities. Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws (EUDL) and preserving the lives those laws are designed to protect can be challenging in college communities. Beginning in 2008, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) funded a EUDL College…

National Conference   2000 National Leadership Conference October 22-25, 2000