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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Alcohol — Excessive Consumption: Enhanced Enforcement of Laws Prohibiting Sales to Minors

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Systematic Review

Source: The Guide to Community Preventive Services

Last Reviewed: February 2006

Workgroups: Substance Use Workgroup

The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends enhanced enforcement of laws banning alcohol sales to minors. Enhanced enforcement involves checking to make sure that retailers are following laws banning alcohol sales to minors. It often involves “sting operations” conducted by or coordinated with local law enforcement or alcohol beverage control agencies. CPSTF notes that more research is needed to determine how changes in retailers’ behavior affect underage drinking.

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Objectives related to this resource (2)

Reduce the proportion of adolescents who drank alcohol in the past month — SU‑04
Little or no detectable change
Reduce the proportion of people under 21 years who engaged in binge drinking in the past month — SU‑09
Little or no detectable change

Suggested Citation

1.

Guide to Community Preventive Services. (2006). Alcohol - Excessive consumption: Enhanced enforcement of laws prohibiting sales to minors. Retrieved from https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/alcohol-excessive-consumption-enhanced-enforcement-laws-prohibiting-sales-minors