In a special supplement to Pediatrics, edited and sponsored by
the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA),
physicians will have access in one place to the reviews and analyses
of current research on biological, behavioral, and environmental
changes during childhood and adolescence that foster the initiation,
maintenance, and acceleration of illegal use of alcohol by underage
youth. This is a first time collection of where science is in our
understanding of underage drinking as a developmental issue. NIAAA,
one of the institutes of the National Institutes of Health, is
committed to moving scientific discovery to strategic prevention
and intervention strategies in order to decrease the toll that
alcohol is taking on our youth — and as these youth grow — to
our society.