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American Bar Association Policy Recommendation on Youth Alcohol and Drug Problems

NCJ Number
108148
Date Published
1986
Length
124 pages
Annotation
This volume focuses on youth alcohol and drug problems and presents both the 20 recommendations approved by the American Bar Association's (ABA) House of Delegates in July 1985 and the study that generated the recommendations.
Abstract
The ABA recommended that policies include prevention, education, treatment, law reforms, and strategies for raising the money needed to carry out the policies. Specific recommendations included making penalties for alcohol or drug sales to minors greater than penalties for sales to adults, provision of treatment for juvenile offenders with substance abuse problems, and State legislation permitting driver's license suspension or revocation for minors convicted of an alcohol or drug-related traffic offense or refusing drug testing related to such an offense. Further recommendations included making 21 the minimum drinking age in all States; strengthening of criminal forfeiture provisions related to drug trafficking; and surcharge fines to pay for prevention, intervention, treatment, and research. Other recommendations focused on dram shop and host liability, alcohol excise taxes, drug paraphernalia, marketing of alcohol, consent to treatment, and related information. The accompanying report gives background information and cites judicial decisions on each topic. Appended map, chart, and 518 footnotes.