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Direct linkCarpenter, Christopher – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2004
This paper uses the widespread variation across states in the timing of adoption of tougher drunk driving laws that set very low legal blood alcohol limits for drivers under age 21--"zero tolerance" (ZT) laws--to provide new evidence on the causal effect of alcohol use on youth suicide. ZT laws reduced heavy episodic drinking by underage men, with…
Descriptors: Zero Tolerance Policy, Suicide, Drinking, Alcohol Abuse
Peer reviewedHerting, Jerald R.; And Others – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1996
Tested a multidimensional model of adolescent drug involvement on samples of high school students. Focused on five first-order dimensions: drug access, alcohol use, other drug use, drug control problems, and adverse drug use consequences. Results contributed to understanding differences and change in drug involvement among high-risk versus…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholism, Causal Models
