Sources of alcohol for underage drinkers.

Wagenaar, Alexander C.; Toomey, Traci L.; Murray, David M.; Short, Brian; Wolfson, Mark; Jones‐Webb, Rhonda

doi:10.15288/jsa.1996.57.325

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“…It is known that use of commercial outlets as sources of alcohol for underage drinkers (as opposed to such sources as persons under or over 21 years of age or one's home) increases with age (Wagenaar et al, 1996). This may relate both to the perceived need for fake IDs and the increase of fake ID ownership over time in college.…”

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“…In a larger cross-sectional study of reported sources of alcohol in a sample of 1,738 participants, 7.5% of youths aged 18 to 20 years reported having used a fake ID in the past month, although the study did not examine differences between college students and youths who were not students (Wagenaar et al, 1996). A cross-sectional examination of fake ID use in 272 college students found that 46% of participants reported having ever used a fake ID for the purpose of obtaining alcohol (Durkin, Wolfe, & Phillips, 1996), suggesting that fake ID use and ownership appears to be noteworthy in college students.…”

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Fake ID ownership and heavy drinking in underage college students: Prospective findings.

Martínez

Rutledge

Sher

2007

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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The authors examined the ownership of false identification (fake ID) for the purpose of obtaining alcohol and the relation of fake ID ownership to heavy drinking in a longitudinal sample of college students under 21 years of age. A sample of 3,720 undergraduates was assessed the summer prior to college entrance and during the 4 semesters comprising freshman and sophomore years. Regression analyses were used to estimate bidirectional relations between consumption and fake ID ownership. Sex, Greek membership, and prior drinking were controlled. Results showed that fake ID ownership increased over time (12.5% precollege to 32.2% fourth semester) and that Greek members were more likely than others to own fake IDs. Fake ID ownership predicted concurrent and next-semester heavy drinking with increasing strength over time. Also, the acquisition (onset) of fake ID ownership at each time point was predicted by previous-semester consumption. When traditional, robust risk factors of consumption are controlled, fake ID ownership meaningfully relates to heavy drinking in college. It thus presents a significant public health problem, addressable through training for alcohol servers and retailers, punitive measures toward fake ID owners, and other possible interventions.Keywords false identification; heavy drinking; alcohol access; longitudinal Heavy drinking is pervasive in college, with 42% of students in a nationally representative sample reporting having had five or more drinks in a sitting within 2 weeks in 2004 (Johnston, O'Malley, Bachman & Schulenberg, 2005), a prevalence rate that has not much changed over the last 25 years. Students experience a wide range of negative short-and long-term personal consequences from heavy drinking (Jackson, Sher & Park, 2005; Task Force of the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 2002), and heavy drinking also presents significant second-hand effects on other individuals and the larger community (Wechsler, Moeykens, Davenport, Castillo, & Hansen, 1995). Compounding the problem of heavy drinking in college is the fact that many heavy drinking college students are below the age of 21 years, the current legal drinking age in the United States, presenting significant enforcement challenges for college campuses and the communities in which they are situated. Indeed, illegal purchase and possession of alcohol is a problem in its own right, as violations of liquor laws accounted for 15% of all arrests among youth aged 18 to 20 years in 2003 (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2003 Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2004) Although underage college students are less likely to be drinkers than their college peers aged over 21 years of age (77% vs. 86% past-year consumption of any alcohol, odds ratio [OR] = . 56), they were more likely to report that they typically engaged in binge drinking on occasions when they did consume alcohol (58% men and 32% women vs. 42% men and 21% women; men OR = 1.93, women OR = 1.85), where binge drinking was defined as five or more drink...

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Fake ID ownership and heavy drinking in underage college students: Prospective findings.

Martínez

Rutledge

Sher

2007

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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“…We know that individual characteristics, such as age, play a role in where youths access alcohol. For example, older adolescents are more likely than younger adolescents to obtain alcohol from parties, friends, and adult purchasers (Harrison et al, 2000;Schwartz et al, 1998;Wagenaar et al, 1993Wagenaar et al, , 1996Williams and Mulhall, 2005). Overall, commercial sources are less frequently used to access alcohol than social sources for alcohol but become more important with age (Wagenaar et al, 1996).…”

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Drinking Behavior and Sources of Alcohol: Differences Between Native American and White Youths

Friese¹,

Grube²,

Seninger³

et al. 2011

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective: We investigated drinking behavior and sources of alcohol among Native American and White youths, as well as how underage drinking behavior and sources of alcohol may be related to environmental factors. Method: Survey data from a sample of 18,916 youths (8th, 10th, and 12th grades) from Montana were analyzed using hierarchical linear modeling. Survey data were supplemented with county-level economic and census data. Results: Native American youths were more likely than White youths to report drinking and heavy episodic drinking and initiate drinking at a younger age. Native Americans were less likely than Whites to get alcohol from home or from someone younger than age 21 but were more likely to get it from other social sources or through theft from a store. Living in a county with more Native Americans was inversely related to access to alcohol for both White and Native American youths, as well as reduced lifetime, 30-day, and heavy episodic drinking. Living in a county with more single-parent households was positively related to lifetime drinking, 30-day drinking, heavy episodic drinking, and increased access to alcohol through someone younger than age 21 or a stranger. Median income was negatively related to lifetime drinking and ease of access to alcohol and was positively related to accessing alcohol from home without permission, theft, or purchase with a fake ID.

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“…6 Young people secure alcohol from a variety of commercial and social sources. Research indicates that while parties, friends, and adult purchasers, are the most common sources of alcohol among adolescents, 7,8,9,10 commercial outlets are also used. Purchase surveys reveal that anywhere from 30% to 90% of outlets will sell alcohol to underage or apparent underage buyers, depending upon their geographical location.…”

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Community level alcohol availability and enforcement of possession laws as predictors of youth drinking

Dent

Grube

Biglan

2005

Preventive Medicine

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Objective-To examine the relationship between community measures of youth access to alcohol, enforcement of possession laws, and the frequency of youth alcohol use and related problems in those communities.Design-Multi-level analysis of a cross-sectional student survey. Setting: Ninety-two communities in Oregon.Participants-Students in grade 11 (ages 16-17) in each participating community.Main outcome measures-Thirty-day frequency of alcohol use, binge drinking, use of alcohol at school, and drinking and driving.Results-The rate of illegal merchant sales in the communities directly related to all four alcohol-use outcomes. There was also evidence that communities with higher minor in possession law enforcement had lower rates of alcohol use and binge drinking. The use of various sources in a community expanded and contracted somewhat depending on levels of access and enforcement.Conclusions-This evidence provides much needed empirical support for the potential utility of local efforts to invest in increasing access control and possession enforcement.

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Sources of alcohol for underage drinkers.

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Fake ID ownership and heavy drinking in underage college students: Prospective findings.

Fake ID ownership and heavy drinking in underage college students: Prospective findings.

Drinking Behavior and Sources of Alcohol: Differences Between Native American and White Youths

Community level alcohol availability and enforcement of possession laws as predictors of youth drinking

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