NCJ Number
122954
Date Published
1984
Length
56 pages
Annotation
A Federal initiative designed to stimulate local, State, regional, and national efforts to reduce teenage alcohol use included 15 regional youth alcohol treatment conferences, together with other conferences focusing on the problem.
Abstract
The treatment conferences were held in the fall of 1983 and were attended by more than 2,200 persons. They focused on current knowledge about youth alcohol treatment. Planners included the concepts of prevention, early identification and intervention, treatment, and aftercare in their concept of treatment. Participants identified several community strategies to reduce adolescent alcohol abuse: raising the drinking age to 21, establishing an alcohol tax with revenues dedicated to alcohol education and treatment, providing increased training, and establishing a clearinghouse for referrals to treatment. Participants also agreed that public awareness, motivation of community leaders, sharing of information among providers, and creative financing are all needed to increase the availability of effective treatment for teenage alcohol abusers. Tables, conference agendas, and summaries of each conference.