Background: Alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes are a major public health problem,
resulting in 15,786 deaths and more than 300,000 injuries in 1999. This report presents the …

Objective: The goal of this article is to review critically the extant minimum legal drinking age
(MLDA) research literature and summarize the current state of knowledge regarding the …

Deterrence theory has been developed primarily by economists, who have viewed potential
criminals as rational decision-makers faced with an array of illicit opportunities characterized …

Joseph R. Gusfield has been for decades the most creative, penetrating, and far-sighted
sociologist of alcohol's ambiguous place in American society. Combining in his work the …

Successful Prevention Programs for Children and Adolescents presents a wide variety of
exemplary programs addressing behavioral and social problems, school failure, drug use …

An individual's decision to use alcohol and the frequency, quantity, and situation of such use
are the result of a combination of biological and social factors. Drinking is not only a …

The objective of this research was to determine the extent to which the decline in alcohol-
related highway deaths among drivers younger than age 21 years can be attributed to …

Since the mid-1970s, the federal government of the United States and various state and
local governments have been involved in a campaign to reduce deaths from motor vehicle …

Objective: Despite minimum-purchase-age laws, young people regularly drink alcohol. This
study estimated the magnitude and costs of problems resulting from underage drinking by …

This chapter presents an overview of evidence-based policies and programs designed to
reduce highway crashes involving alcohol-impaired drivers. Alcohol-impaired driving has …