· The article starts off by giving a brief overview of the minimum legal drinking age. The legal age was 21 after prohibition but then was lowered to 18 until higher amounts of traffic accidents and deaths among youths forced the age back to 21. Then simple facts are stated. A higher minimum legal drinking age is effective in preventing alcohol-related deaths and injuries among youth. Research shows that when the MLDA is 21, people under the age of 21 drink less overall and continue to do so through their early twenties.
· The site is very helpful to my topic due to all the information it contains about prohibition and the reasons why the age has been altered so many times. The history is given in an informative way, but then facts are presented in a bulleted format which makes an easy process to get what you need from the article.
2. Dennison, Darwin, Thomas Prevet, and Michael Affleck. Alcohol and Behavior : an Activated Education Approach. St. Louis: The C.V. Mosby Company, 1980.
· The book breaks down how alcohol affects the human behavior into different sections of experimental, cognitive, and affective phases. In the experimental phase it tells ways they used experiments to evaluate the health and behavior of humans in all the different classes. They explore adolescents, college students, and different ethnicities. It then moves to the cognitive stage where they explore the mental effects of alcohol on humans such as mood and aggression. Then in the affective phase they research into how a person’s environment and peer groups affect the level a drinking.
· The book is probably the best source I have found so far. It breaks down everything into easy sections that are each followed by a summary after each section. It also touches on different approaches to alcohol and behavior which gives many different ways to look at the subject. The easy to read information is another good aspect of the book.
3. "Fact Sheet: Binge Drinking on College Campuses." Center for Science in the Public Interest. 17 Apr. 2008
· This is a list of facts about college students drinking. It tells you that half of the population indulges in binge drinking. People binge drink because they just want to get drunk, they like the status associated with drinking, and other reasons. They also tell what the consequences of binge drinking are.
· It is set up in a who, what, where, why, and how fashion which makes it an easy way to get the facts, and understand how they relate to the topic. It is from a survey from Harvard, so the source is credible. It also touches on many topics relative to college students and drinking.
4. Fisher, Celia B., Adam L. Fried, and Andrea Anushko. "Development and Validation of the College Drinking Influences Survey." Journal of American College Health 56 (2007): 1-15. Academic Search Premier. 15 Apr. 2008.
· The journal looks into the reasons of why college students drink. It tells how the physical and psychological aspects of a person’s surroundings affect a person with drinking. It then goes into the survey that they conducted with many college students. The survey asked questions about the students’ morals, college expectations, and other aspects of their life.
· The article is very helpful with my topic. It presents the information in a straight-forward way. The graphs and charts show their results in a way that everyone can understand, and it was put together in a well formatted way.
5. Hitti, Miranda. "Alcohol Problems Up in College Students." WebMD - Better information. Better health.. 17 Apr. 2008
· The article touches on many different topics that concern college drinkers. It states that there are more college students driving under the influence and that injury and fights are still up in numbers. It also states that college students are not the only ones accounting for the drunk drivers. Also most college students start drinking when they are young teens.
· I think it is good article filled with facts and information. It is explained in an easy to read fashion, so the author gets her point across very well. It is also broken down into separate sections for each topic.
6. Moser, Joy. Problems and Programmes Related to Alcohol and Drug Dependence in 33 Countries. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1974.
· The book compares the drinking issue among many different countries. It begins by breaking down the extent of the problem among the world’s countries. It then goes into the factors that contribute to each nation such as availability of alcohol, the national policy, and the drugs that alcoholics are using. It then goes into the amount of alcoholics per nation by charts and words.
· It is very good at giving information about the different areas of the world with alcohol. The only problem is that it does not include the United States. It also does not use the same countries when it switches topics. With each chart and study, there are new countries added and some are dropped. It does however present the information very straight forward so that it does not confuse anyone. The book was written by the World Health Organization, so it is a reliable source.
7. Rhodes, Jean, and Leonard Jason. Preventing Substance Abuse Among Children and Adolescents. New York: Pergamon Press, 1988.
· The book is mainly about substance abuse and all of its forms. It starts with the factors that lead to substance abuse breaking it down into the different stages of childhood and the factors that are related. It then goes into the theories of why there is substance abuse among people and ways to prevent it in children and adolescents. It then ends with quizzes that tell the reader if someone is abusing a substance.
· The book does a fantastic job at assessing the factors that lead to someone becoming a substance abuser. It breaks everything down into each age and tells in a clear fashion how it affects someone at that stage in their life. The theories are really not quite relevant, but they do offer additional information in understanding substance abuse.
8. Saltz, Robert F., and William Dejong. United States. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Reducing Alcohol Problems on Campus: a Guide to Planning and Evaluation. Apr. 2002. 17 Apr. 2008
· The paper is about changing the college drinking problem. It starts off by identifying the problem and how it affects the college students and the college itself. It then goes on to evaluate the research done by institutions using the social ecological framework. Then it breaks down the different types of interventions possible for every type of group. It then breaks down how to research and take the final evaluations.
· It was an interesting article that listed possible ways to solve the problem of college drinking. A solution is always nice to think about when writing a paper. It is broken down into easy to read sections. I read the article thinking it would be little more effective to my topic, but it did not really turn up too many topics. It does make me want to look into possible solutions for fixing the problem.
9. Tewksbury, Richard, George E. Higgins, and Mustaine E. Elizabeth. "Binge Drinking Among College Athletes and Non-Athletes." Deviant Behavior (2008): 1-20. Academic Search Premier. 14 Apr. 2008.
· Most studies are usually concerned with the normal college student and do not take into account the college athlete. This study compares the two different classes with very good facts. It talks about normal college drinking with things such as it is a learned behavior. Then it goes into the college student and compares them to each other.
· This is a good article showing the different classes of people that drink in college. I thought it would be a good article for my topic, but it does not really tie in. It is very good with presenting charts, but they are not easily understood. Even though it is not too good for my topic, I should be able to pull some information from the source.
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