Research
The following selection of research relates to campus-based alcohol, other drug abuse, and violence (AODV) prevention, with a special focus on the scope of the problem and promising strategies and interventions. The citations are compiled on a monthly basis from 15 peer-reviewed journals serving as the primary source of college AODV prevention articles and from keyword searches of online research databases.
MLDA/Age 21
Fell, J.C., Fisher, D.A., Voas, R.B., Blackman, K., and Tippetts, A.S. (2009). The impact of underage drinking laws on alcohol-related fatal crashes of young drivers, Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, 33(7): 1208-1219.
Martinez, J. A., Muñoz García, M. A., & Sher, K. J. (2009). A new minimum legal drinking age (mlda)? Some findings to inform the debate. Addictive Behaviors, 34(4), 407-410.
Arria, A., Caldeira, K. M., O'Grady, K. E., Vincent, K. B., Fitzelle, D. B., Johnson, E. P., & Wish, E. D. (2008). Drug Exposure Opportunities and Use Patterns Among College Students: Results of a Longitudinal Prospective Cohort Study. Substance Abuse, 29(4), 19-38.
Coll, J. E., Draves, P. R., & Major, M. E. (2008). An examination of underage drinking in a sample of private university students. College Student Journal, 42(4), 982-985.
Fell, J. C., Fisher, D. A., Voas, R. B., Blackman, K., & Tippetts, A. S. (2008). The relationship of underage drinking laws to reductions in drinking drivers in fatal crashes in the United States. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 40(4), 1430-1440.
Liang, L., & Huang, J. (2008). Go out or stay in? The effects of zero tolerance laws on alcohol use and drinking and driving patterns among college students. Health Economics, 17(11), 1261-1275.
Martinez, J. A., Rutledge, P. C., & Sher, K. J. (2007). Fake ID ownership and heavy drinking in underage college students: Prospective findings. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 21(2), 226-232.
LaBrie, J.W., Rodrigues, A., Schiffman, J., Tawalbeh, S. (2007). Early alcohol initiation increases risk related to drinking among college students. Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 17(2), 125–141.
Ponicki, W.R., Gruenewald, P.L., LaScala, E.A. (2007). Joint impacts of minimum legal drinking age and beer taxes on US youth traffic fatalities, 1975 to 2001. Alcohol: Clinical Experimental Research, 31(5), 804–813.
Kypri, K., Voas, R., Langley, J., Stephenson, B., Begg, D., Tippetts, S., & Davie, G. (2006). Minimum purchasing age for alcohol and traffic crash injuries among 15- to 19-year-olds in New Zealand. American Journal of Public Health, 96(1), 126–131.
Voas, R.B., Tippetts, A.S., & Fell, J.C. (2003). Assessing the effectiveness of minimum legal drinking age and zero tolerance laws in the United States. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 35, 579–587.
Everitt, R., & Jones, P. (2002). Changing the minimum legal drinking age—its effect on a central city emergency department. The New Zealand Medical Journal, 115(1146), 9–11.
Wagenaar, A.C., & Toomey, T.L. (2002). Effects of minimum drinking age laws: Review and analyses of the literature from 1960 to 2000. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Supplement 14, 206–225.
O'Malley, P.M., & Wagenaar, A.C. (1991). Effects of minimum drinking age laws on alcohol use, related behaviors and traffic crash involvement among American youth: 1976–1987. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 52, 478–491.