Government Documents

U.S. Department of Health and Human Safety Office of Applied Science. "2001 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse." U.S. Department of Health and Human Safety Office of Applied Science. 16 May 2008. U.S. Department of Health and Human Safety Office of Applied Science. 3 Jun 2008 <http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/nhsda/2k1nhsda/vol1/Chapter3.htm>.

This data was collected by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The survey is about the recency and frequency of people drinking beer, wines, and liquors. The survey distinctly defines one drink in the introduction to the survey. The survey also shows current use, heavy use, and binge use, with binge being the most excessive use. The data the USDHHS collected is very useful data because they used very definite variables. They also addressed many questions and broke their data down into age ranges, sex, race/ ethnicity, education, employment, and type of county. This data could be very useful to research what factors influence young adults and people in general to drink. The charts make it very easy to compare the different age groups. The data gives very clear findings that the 18- 25 age group is the highest binge drinking age. This data could be used to investigate what other factors seem to correlate with that age group and high binge drinking rates.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. A Call to Action: Changing the Culture of College Drinking. National Institutes of Health, 2002.

This document was compiled by the Task Force of the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism in April of 2002. The NACAAA is a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The call to action of the project is “changing the culture of drinking at U.S. College campuses.” The document proposes questions of the culture and hypothetical answers. There are also important statistics on the correlation between high-risk drinking and various issues including death, injury, assault, driving, unsafe sex, and violence. A reporter could use the national survey to do a more in- depth story about how a certain University ranks to the national average or an investigative piece on what a specific university is doing to prevent high- risk drinking on their campus.