Underage Drinking: Data Visualization and Fact Sheets from SAMHSA
Publication Date: Mar 30, 2021
SAMHSA's newest tools for addressing underage drinking include fact sheets and data visualizations:
- After High School: Talking With Your Young Adult About Underage Drinking: This fact sheet informs parents how to talk to their young adult about the risks of underage drinking,
- Be Prepared to Have the Difficult Conversation: This data visualization illustrates the correlation between alcohol use and other substance use.
- Take Action to Prevent Underage Alcohol Use: This data visualization shows the effectiveness of taking action to reduce underage drinking.
- Getting Ahead of a Problem: A data visualization illustrating the drinking habits of adolescents.
Unsafe Drinking Among College Students
High-risk drinking continues to pose risks to student health and well-being on college campuses across the country. New resources from SAMHSA share strategies for addressing the problem:
- Prevent Unsafe Drinking Behaviors on Campus: A data visualization showing binge drinking statistics among college students.
- College Drinking: Prevention Perspectives "Embracing Culture and Context to Prevent Underage Drinking": This video shows how HBCUs, as well as other institutions that primarily serve students from a distinct background, region, or culture, can create prevention strategies to meet the unique needs of those students.
- College Drinking: Prevention Perspectives "Embracing Culture and Context to Prevent Underage Drinking" Discussion Guide: This discussion guide is a companion to the video of the same name that shows how HBCUs, as well as other institutions that primarily serve students from a distinct background, region, or culture, can create prevention strategies to meet the unique needs of those students.
- College Drinking: Prevention Perspectives "Lessons Learned at Frostburg State University" Discussion Guide: This discussion guide is a companion to a video by the same name that highlights steps taken by the Frostburg State University community to reduce underage and high-risk drinking among the student population and discusses how these strategies were implemented.