The purpose of the project is to contribute resources to the judiciary on the broad and encompassing problems related to underage alcohol use.  By their nature judges assume a leadership role within a community and have the ability to shape and influence community norms around this issue.  The objective of the project is to collect…

Research – Community Trials Discretionary Program Evaluation   A Latent Class Analysis of Underage Problem Drinking: Evidence from a Community Sample of 16-20 Year Olds. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376871605003509 Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 27 July 2006; Volume 83, Issue 3, Pages 199-209The aim of this paper is to shed light on the nature of underage problem drinking by…

Community/Coalition Assessment Tools Survey Instruments Community/Coalition Assessment Tools The following section contains sample assessment tools for communities and coalitions that UDETC and/or communities have used to gather information.  Please feel free to modify them to fit your own community’s needs.  If you have any questions about how to use the assessment, or if you have sample assessment…

OJJDP Development Grants to Colleges Yield Improvement in Underage Drinking Enforcement 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…

The OJJDP Enforcing the Underage Drinking Laws Initiative supports cooperation between community organizations, enforcement agencies, youth, and other concerned citizens to change local ordinances and enforcement practices.   Minnesota Youth Press for Penalties Brainerd, Minnesota’s Youth In Action and MADD chapters persuaded their city council to enact stiff penalties for outlets that sell alcohol to…

Adolescent brain ‘sensitive to drugs’ (BBC  11/10/02) From: Miles Townes Date: 11/11/2002 Time: 10:49:01 AM Remote Name: 138.88.91.157 Comments from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2388917.stm The brains of adolescents are far more sensitive to the addictive effects of drugs, experiments on mice suggest. And the researchers, from Jefferson Medical College in the US, believe that the effect may be…