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Research – Higher Education   To Cut Down on College Drinking, Involve the Surrounding Community http://www.drugfree.org/join-together/cut-college-drinking-involve-surrounding-community/ Join Together, August 5, 2015 How to Cut Student Drinking http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-cut-student-drinking-1435249267 Text messages and personalized feedback online can helpThe Wall Street Journal, June 29, 2015 Report recommends new approach to college drinking http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-05/bumc-rrn051815.php ErekAlert!/Boston University Medical Center, May 18,…

OJJDP is supporting the States’s efforts to combat the underage drinking problem by funding the Enforcing the Underage Drinking Laws Program. The scope of underage drinking is pervasive (link to extent facts) among United States youth. Drinking among adolescents leads to many social and economic costs (link to consequences facts), including alcohol-related traffic fatalities. The…

Research – Spotlight-What’s Happening   Alcohol use, binge drinking continues to fall among underage, report finds http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/alcohol-use-binge-drinking-continues-to-fall-among-underage-report-finds/2015/06/10/dbdc8b4c-0f79-11e5-a0dc-2b6f404ff5cf_story.html Washington Post, June 11, 2015 Making the Case for Greater Investment in Prevention http://www.healthyalcoholmarket.com/pdf/NewsletterJanuary2015.pdf Campaign for a Healthy Alcohol MarketplaceJanuary 2015 A Latent Growth Curve Analysis of Alcohol-use Specific Parenting and Adolescent Alcohol Use http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25117845 Addict Behav. 2014…

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

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…

Research – Brain Research   Adolescent Alcohol Dependence May Damage Brain Function http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/feb2000/niaaa-14.htm A study in the February 2000 Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research (Volume 24, Number 2) presents the first concrete evidence that protracted, heavy alcohol use can impair brain function in adolescents. It is unclear at present whether the damage is reversible. Alcohol…