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There are numerous sources appropriate for your research in the Undergraduate Library's Reference Collection. Those listed on this page provide excellent starting points for your research. If you need help identifying other sources, Ask a Librarian.

• CQ Researcher Online Research Resources This source presents an analysis of issues in the news in a non-biased way. The October 6, 2000 issue contains an article about Drunk Driving, it also has a chronology of the minimum legal drinking age debate.
• Alcohol and Tobacco: America's Drugs of Choice 362.290973 Al 182001 This book is part of the Information Plus Reference Series. It presents the facts in a non-biased way so that the researcher can form their own opinions on the issue. There are entries concerning Age restrictions to alcohol and the accessibility of alcohol to minors.
• Encyclopedia of Drugs and Alcohol Q362.2903 EN19 This is a comprehensive source for non-experts. It is not a medical reference book but has articles on the "social policy, history, politics, economics, international trafficking, law enforcement, scientific and medical research, treatment and prevention of drug abuse, and epidemiology." The articles are written so that they can be understood by anyone who has taken a high school biology course. It includes many helpful entries on all types of topics related to the consumption of alcohol, including an articles on adolescents and alcohol use. There is also a section on the minimum drinking age laws.
• Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: An International Encyclopedia Q362.29203 Al 183 This book strives to "present the history of the beverage alcohol as a commercial product, cultural icon, behavioral solvent, object of medicosociological research, and political issue." It contains an introduction to the Temperance movement and to Temperance societies which continue to influence policy today.
• International Handbook on Alcohol and Culture 394.13 IN8 The author of this book is an anthropologist. He is looking at the ways different cultures view alcohol. This book covers Asia, Europe and the Americas. Some of the entries include descriptions of the drinking age in various cultures and the ways in which young people are introduced to alcohol.