Placing legal limits on the minimum drinking age in the United States remains a frequent subject of political debate. Following the
1933 repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, which had banned alcohol sales nationwide, the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA)
differed from state to state, with most states settling on a range of ages between eighteen and twenty-one. The passage of the
National Minimum Drinking Age Act in 1984 effectively set the legal drinking age at twenty-one nationwide. T

This study examined the indirect associations of features of cultural orientation (i.e., vertical individualism, vertical collectivism, horizontal individualism, horizontal collectivism; VI, VC, HI, and HC, respectively) with alcohol use and alcohol-related negative consequences, via drinking motives in college students from seven countries. A total of 4093 participants (72.8% female, 27.2% male) across seven countries (USA, Canada, Spain, England, South Africa, Argentina, and Uruguay) completed an online survey that assessed alcohol use and experienced alcohol-related negative consequences, drinking motives, and cultural orientation.

he responsibility to ensure safe partying falls too heavily on students, resulting in universities missing opportunities to provide measures that promote safety while mitigating risks and potentially serious harms.

"Most studies were conducted in the United Kingdom, Australia and South Africa. The physical availability of alcohol and proximity to local amenities and temporal aspects, like late night opening hours, may be linked to social factors, such as normalisation of drinking and permissive drinking environments. "

"A good example of this phenomenon occurred when the drinking age was raised from eighteen to twenty-one. Following the change, newly underage college students whose freedom was now restricted drank more than older adult college students whose freedom had not been restricted, even though for thirty years prior to the change, older adult students had engaged in more drinking."

"The Supreme Court has emphatically and repeatedly rejected efforts to justify otherwise-illegal discrimination against individuals by resort to statistical generalizations about groups. But practices that violate this principle are pervasive and largely ignored or even embraced by courts, lawyers, and law scholars. "

"Late adolescents, despite achieving the age of majority, are both socially and legally excluded from activities commonly correlated with adulthood. See, e.g., 23 U.S.C. §158 (conditioning receipt of federal highway funding on state minimum drinking age of twenty-one); 42 U.S.C. §300x-26 (requiring twenty-one years of age to purchase cigarettes and other nicotine products); Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 94G, §1 (2022) (proscribing those under twenty-one from purchasing marijuana in Massachusetts). However, most states and the federal government continue to treat eighteen-year-olds as adults for purposes of the criminal justice system. "

This study is the first to demonstrate longitudinally that automatic parenting cognitions as measured by the RRT (Relational Responding Task) can be used as a predictor of the level of drinking among older adolescents, even after controlling for explicit parenting behaviors.

"This article seeks to explain the large decline in drinking and driving that occurred in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s. Using a simple measure of drinking and driving— the fraction of crashes involving drinking drivers—we develop a basic traffic safety model that improves estimates of drunk driving laws’ effects and breaks down declines in drinking and driving"