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Rethinking Alcohol: Addressing Underage Drinking in Indiana

Join our forum "Thinking Outside the Bottle" on education and prevention. Adults providing alcohol to underage drinkers leads to at-risk behaviors. Explore solutions involving enforcement, minimizing underage drinking, cultural norms, accessibility, and parent-child communication. Evaluate lack of alternatives and understanding, advertising issues, and positive factors like classroom education and community involvement. Recognize the consequences and consider alternative solutions with education, stakeholder involvement, enforcement, and policy initiatives.

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Rethinking Alcohol: Addressing Underage Drinking in Indiana

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  1. Indiana Alcohol Forum “Thinking Outside the Bottle” Education & Prevention – Adults providing alcohol to underage drinkers contributes to at-risk behaviors.

  2. Description of the Problem: • Clear and Consistent Enforcement of current laws • Minimizing the Underage Drinking Problem • Culture/Norm issues • Accessibility • Communication (Parent/Child)

  3. Description of the Problem: • Lack of Alternatives - perception • Lack of Understanding of the threat of alcohol • Advertising issues • Sporting Events

  4. Constructive Factors: • Positive Advertising • classroom education - drug use • teaching aids • Fatal Vision goggles • Community Involvement • Red Ribbon Week • Industry Involved in Education

  5. Constructive Factors: • Decreased use in some grades • Using environmental approaches • Peer education • Learning at an earlier age • Teaching students to be individuals

  6. Scope of Problem: • Alcohol is too accessible • Public is not educated to realize that alcohol is a health hazard • Parents don’t communicate with their teenage children about the risks of alcohol • Teenagers are surrounded by a polluted environment

  7. Consequences of the Problem: • Increased Penalties • New Legislation • Community Involvement • Parents take responsibility • Awareness that alcohol is a public health threat

  8. Alternative Solutions (Pros) • Education • Stakeholders • Enforcement • Policy Initiatives

  9. Alternative Solutions (Cons) • Resources • Stakeholders • Politics

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