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Raising awareness among young people about alcohol issues and encouraging responsible and low-risk choices is one of the main focus areas of alcohol education. These efforts can be divided into two major categories: (1) formal alcohol education through schools and other channels; and (2) informal approaches that are imparted through the socialization process by family, peers and others who are or might be influential in the development of young people. Some new approaches fall in between these two categories. For example, Internet or computer-based approaches can combine the formal and informal aspects of alcohol education and may resonate well with young people.

Table: Minimum Age Limits Worldwide

Table: International Drinking Guidelines

ICAP Blue Book Modules

Alcohol Education (108 KB .pdf)
Life Skills (70 KB .pdf)
Social Norms Marketing (74 KB .pdf)
Young People and Alcohol (130 KB .pdf)
Legal Age Limits (128 KB .pdf)

Examples of Targeted Interventions (410 KB .pdf)

ICAP Reports 16: Alcohol Education and Its Effectiveness (188 KB .pdf)

New book on alcohol policy: Drinking in Context: Patterns, Interventions and Partnerships

ICAP Review 2: Drinking in Context: A Collective Responsibility (104 KB .pdf)

Monograph (2004): What Drives Underage Drinking? An International Analysis (757 KB.pdf)

ICAP Symposium on Young People’s Drinking (2004), Kobe, Japan

ICAP Book Series, Vol. 5: Learning about Drinking

Advice to young people from 10 experts: Learning about Drinking Letters

ICAP Report 14: International Drinking Guidelines (500 KB .pdf)

ICAP Report 5: What is a “Standard Drink”? (407 KB .pdf)

ICAP Report 3: Health Warning Labels (372 KB .pdf)

ICAP Report 1: Safe Alcohol Consumption (326 KB .pdf)

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ICAP Blue Book
Practical Guides for Alcohol Policy
and Prevention Approaches

The ICAP Blue Book offers a comprehensive guide to the key issues in alcohol policy development and an integrated approach to prevention. It draws upon the best available research and experience from around the world.

As a policy guide, the ICAP Blue Book is based on three principles:

· drinking patterns and their outcomes as a sound scientific basis for policy development;

· targeted interventions that address specific "at-risk" populations, potentially harmful contexts and drinking behaviors as key in maximizing the benefits and minimizing the harms related to drinking;

· partnerships that allow the inclusion of the public and private sectors, the community and civil society as an excellent opportunity to promote the complex mix of measures required by each society.

It is intended as a tool to assist those seeking guidance in developing policy and prevention approaches, be they governments, intergovernmental organizations, public health officials and specialists, researchers, nongovernmental organizations, the beverage alcohol industry and its related bodies or civil society organizations interested in alcohol policy development.

To assist stakeholders in using the Blue Book to develop approaches to individual issues or comprehensive alcohol policies at the local or national level, a simple protocol, the Alcohol Policy Seminar (APS), has been developed. Information about the APS, its implementation and ICAP’s partners in its development is available at www.alcoholseminar.org.

Click here for the ICAP Blue Book Module on Alcohol Education. (133 KB .pdf)

Click here for the entire ICAP Blue Book.

Related Blue Book Modules include:

Life Skills (104 KB .pdf), Social Norms Marketing (130 KB .pdf), Young People and Alcohol (159 KB .pdf), Drinking Guidelines (128 KB .pdf), Standard Drinks (121 KB .pdf) .