“Raising the minimum purchase age for alcohol to 21 throughout the country has been a successful strategy for reducing alcohol use and preventing related problems” (Levy, Miller, Cox, 1999, p. 1). According to the U.S. Department of Justice, since 1975, minimum purchase age laws have prevented more than 17,000 traffic fatalities (Levy, et al, 1999). To focus on the growing cost to society associated with underage drinking, Congress appropriated $50 million over a two-year period to the Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to fund the Enforcing the Underage Drinking Laws Program (McKinney

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