RT Journal
A1 Hingson RW
T1 THe legal drinking age and underage drinking in the united states
JF Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
JO Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
YR 2009
FD July 6
VO 163
IS 7
SP 598
OP 600
DO 10.1001/archpediatrics.2009.66
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpediatrics.2009.66
AB 
Each year thousands of adolescents in the United States are killed, injured, or suffer other serious consequences of their own or another's underage drinking. The immense societal costs of underage drinking have made it a focus of concern among policymakers and public health officials. In 2006, the US Congress passed the Sober Truth on Preventing (STOP) Underage Drinking Act1 to help states and communities address this chronic problem. In 2007, The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking2 appealed to Americans to do more to stop current underage drinkers from using alcohol and to keep other adolescents from starting.