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Youth, Alcohol, and Social Policy

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  • © 1979

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Editors:
  1. Howard T. Blane

    1. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

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  2. Morris E. Chafetz

    1. Health Education Foundation, USA

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Epidemiology of Drinking Practices among Adolescents and Young Adults

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-3
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    2. Middle-Aged Alcoholics and Young Drinkers

      • Howard T. Blane
      Pages 5-38

    3. Patterns of Alcohol Consumption among the Young: High School, College, and General Population Studies

      • Henry Wechsler
      Pages 39-58

    4. Alcohol Problems among Civilian Youth and Military Personnel

      • J. Michael Polich
      Pages 59-86

  3. Theoretical Models of Drinking among Adolescents and Young Adults

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-90
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    2. Developmental Aspects of Drinking through the Young Adult Years

      • Robert A. Zucker
      Pages 91-146

    3. Ecological Factors in Drinking

      • Thomas C. Harford
      Pages 147-182

    4. Sex Roles and Adolescent Drinking

      • Sharon C. Wilsnack, Richard W. Wilsnack
      Pages 183-224

  4. Public Policy Implications of Drinking Problems among Youth

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-227
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    2. Priorities in Minimizing Alcohol Problems among Young People

      • Reginald G. Smart
      Pages 229-261

    3. The Impact of Sociopolitical Systems on Teenage Alcohol Abuse

      • Richard E. Horman
      Pages 263-281

    4. Toward National Policy for Health Education

      • Lawrence W. Green
      Pages 283-305

  5. Strategies for Reducing Drinking Problems among Youth

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 307-310
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    2. Strategies for Reducing Drinking Problems among Youth: College Programs

      • David P. Kraft
      Pages 311-353

    3. U.S. Military Alcohol Abuse Prevention and Rehabilitation Programs

      • John E. Killeen
      Pages 355-381

    4. Behavioral Strategies for Reducing Drinking among Young Adults

      • Peter M. Miller
      Pages 383-408

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 409-424
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About this book

Anxiety about "alcohol and youth" has been excited by shocking events and reports. Events are exemplified by multiple deaths of adolescents in automobile crashes after drinking parties. Reports are exemplified by the conclusion, from a national survey, that more than one fourth of youngsters aged 13 to 18 are already problem drinkers. Response provoked by these events and reports has taken the form of proposed or enacted legislation in several states to raise the so-called legal drinking age from 18 to 19, or 20, or 21. The confusion around the alcohol-and-youth problem is manifest in the fact that no one can be sure that raising the legal drinking age will make any difference. The legislation may be tilting at windmills; and it is doubtful even that the windmills exist. (But the legislative windmills are whirling.) The confusion is clearly manifest in the fact that the legal­ drinking-age legislation does not deal with a drinking age.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

    Howard T. Blane

  • Health Education Foundation, USA

    Morris E. Chafetz

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Youth, Alcohol, and Social Policy

  • Editors: Howard T. Blane, Morris E. Chafetz

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8538-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1979

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-8540-0Published: 02 June 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-8538-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 450

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Economic Policy

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