Translating Research Into Action: Reducing Underage Drinking A Collective Responsibility

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Translating Research Into ActionReducing
Underage Drinking A Collective Responsibility

• Presented by
• Penny Norton, CEO

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You cannot teach what a community will not
support and make it last.
Rand Institute, 1989
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Leading Medical Cause of Death in Adults

• Key Contributing Factors
• Smoking and Diet
• Smoking and Diet
• Alcohol

• Cause of Death
• Heart Disease
• Cancer
• Injuries (Car Crashes)

Source Center for Disease Control, 2001
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Leading Medical Cause of Death in Teens

Key Contributing Factors Alcohol Guns and
Alcohol Depression and Alcohol

• Cause of Death
• Injuries (Car Crashes)
• Homicide
• Suicide

Source Center for Disease Control, 2001
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Reducing Underage Drinking
A Collective Responsibility
INSTITUTE OF MEDICINENATIONAL RESEARCH
COUNCILOF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
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Kids Experience a Different Drinking Environment
Today

• What has changed
• What kids drink (potency
• of alcohol)
• How much kids drink
• Frequency of their drinking
• Age they begin drinking
• Overall availability of alcohol
• Definition of a drink
• Parental/adult supervision

Source FACE Truth and Clarity on Alcohol.
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