A Proposal on Underage Drinking Prevention in Campus Town

Introduction

There should be sustained and multi-dimensional underage drinking prevention in campus town as we known the consequences of underage drinking can be devastating. Drinking-related incidents such as motor-vehicle accidents, homicides, suicides, drownings, falls, and burns kill and injure thousands of adolescents each year. Those under 21 who drink and drive are twice as likely as their adult counterparts to be involved in a fatal drunk driving accident. Moreover, alcohol is commonly a factor in sexual assaults, and in fact, rape and aggression are far more likely to occur when either the perpetrator or victim has been drinking. Teens who drink are also far more likely to engage in high-risk sexual activity such as unprotected sex and sex with multiple partners than those who do not use alcohol.

What Exactly Do I Want To Achieve?

I want to present strategies for the prevention of underage drinking in campus town. These will be highly effective in controlling reducing the occurrence of drug-based crime in the campus town.

Does My Proposal Really Solve The Problem At Hand?

I am perfectly sure that my proposal will really solve the problem at hand because it sees the issues not from a single point of view but from multiple dimensions.

Why Should My Readers Agree With My Solution Rather Than An Existing Solution?

The readers will agree with my solutions because these solutions are logical and based on ground realities.

Discussion

Callison, Colocino & Vasquez (pp. 67-79) mention college-based prevention programs have historically been a key component of a comprehensive prevention system. Epidemiological evidence suggests the age of onset for substance abuse is in early adolescence, and peers are a primary influence on adolescent behavior. Colleges reach many adolescents in a single location while providing a controlled environment for delivery of prevention curricula and nonuse norms, policies, and practices. Colleges not only can provide a solid academic foundation for students and teach skills that enable them to make choices about healthy lifestyles throughout their lives but can create an environment where substance use is either a norm or not acceptable (Callison, Colocino & Vasquez, pp. 67-79).

Key strategy number two includes early identification, referral, and intervention with students and parents at risk. One of the most common activities in this area is student assistance programs. However, this strategy requires further, more rigorous evaluation before it can be considered a key activity. Strategies designed to identify students and parents at risk and refer them to appropriate educational or therapeutic programs have been more successful at reducing substance abuse. Programs that target at-risk families and provide skills training, family in-home support, and family therapy have been shown to improve communication, foster attachment, improve parenting skills, reduce parents' substance abuse, improve child behavior, and reduce children's levels of substance abuse. Programs should include, among other things, components for both parents and children, identification of and expansion upon strengths of the family, and groups of no more than 15 families per cohort (Paglia, pp. 30-50).

Key strategy number three is to provide safe ...