Underage drinking alcohol

G. A. Hacker and K. Miller, 2002. NAS Testimony on Underage Drinking. Alcohol Policies Project, Center for Science in the Public Interest. http //www.cspinent. org/booze/NASTestimonyPrint.htm. 

I participate in a community coalition dedicated to fighting drunken dririnjj and underage drinking. Our motto All it takes is everyone. Only community-wide efforts around the country can defeat the problem of alcohol abuse. ... 

However, you will recall from Chapter 2 that Barry McCaffrey, Drug Czar in the Chnton administration, did include a target about youth alcohol and tobacco use in the 1999 NDCS. Furthermore, there are some federal initiatives in agencies that primarily have functions under the auspices of ONDCP (e.g.. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) which involve underage drinking. Therefore, it is reasonable to ask why more is not being done. 

Because of pressure from the alcohol industry, neither the federal administration (represented by ONDCP) nor Congress is interested in having ONDCP focus on alcohol. In this chapter, there will be a discussion of how this poHcy is illogical, based on the harm caused by underage drinking and the relationship of youth alcohol and dhcit drug use. 

Given this information on alcohol abuse and the harm resulting from it, why limit this discussion to underage drinking First, the NDCS is about the illicit and iU al use of drugs. Even with the knowledge that alcohol is a drug, alcohol use... 

The alcohol industry has had some success in the past in pressuring federal agencies to minimize underage drinking prevention. In 1995, the National Beer Wholesalers Association successfully lobbied a House subcommittee to ehminate the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention s discretionary budget for grants and initiatives. According to an article written in the Wall Street Journal, a lobbyist for the National Beer Wholesalers Association said... 

Formation of a partnership to prevent underage drinking This independent, nonprofit foundation would be funded by the alcohol industry, along with private and pubfic partners, with a mission to reduce and prevent underage drinking. 

The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, 2003. The economic value of underage drinking and adult excessive drinking to the alcohol industry. New York National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. 

The Value of Underage and Excessive Drinking to the Alcohol Industry... 

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