MINIMUM-DRINKING-AGE LAWS. AN EVALUATION

The available information about minimum-drinking-age laws is examined in detail. Nine chapters, individually authored, discuss the following topics: minimum-age laws and youthful drinking; the history of youthful-drinking laws and implications for current policy; discouraging unhealthy personal choices through regulation (the minimum drinking age); historical trends in alcohol use and driving by young Americans; research strategies to evaluate the impact of changes in the legal drinking age; the legal drinking age and traffic casualties (changing alcohol availability in a public health context); impact of changes in legal purchase or drinking age on drinking and admissions to treatment; relationship among adolescent drinking practices, related behaviors, and drinking-age laws; and implications for future research and public policy. A subject index, a professional sketch of the editor, and author affiliations are included.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Includes HS-030 216--HS-030 224.
• Corporate Authors:

  Lexington Books

  4501 Forbes Blvd., Suite 200
  Lanham, MD  United States  20706
• Publication Date: 1980

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 192 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Adolescents; Drivers; Drunk driving; Legal drinking age; Public policy; Teenage drivers; Traffic regulations
• Uncontrolled Terms: Traffic laws
• Subject Areas: Law; Policy; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00379504
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-030 215
• Files: HSL, USDOT
• Created Date: Nov 30 1983 12:00AM