The “Those Who Host Lose the Most” public awareness campaign was created in 2006 by substance abuse coalitions in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The five-week campaign, based on a program created by the Drug-Free Action Alliance, is designed to raise awareness of dangers and legal ramifications of providing alcohol to individuals under the age of 21. The campaign uses media, marketing and law enforcement strategies to
The “Those Who Host Lose the Most” campaign begins the last week of March with a press conference and runs through the month of April. To find out more, click here.
To report an underage drinking violation, call 1-888-THE-TABC. In the News July 7, 2008, Associated Press Drinking games deadly to college students On the morning after the house party on Johnson Street, Jenna Foellmi and several other twentysomethings lay sprawled on the beds and couches. When a friend reached out to wake her, Foellmi was cold to the touch. The friend’s screams woke up the others still asleep in the house. Foellmi, a 20-year-old biochemistry major at Winona State University, died of alcohol poisoning on Dec. 14, one day after she had finished her last exam of the semester. According to police reports, she had three beers during the day, then played beer pong -- a drinking game—in the evening, and downed some vodka, too. Foellmi’s death was tragic, but typical in many ways. An Associated Press analysis of federal records found that 157 college-age people, 18 to 23, drank themselves to death from 1999 through 2005, the most recent year for which figures are available. The number of alcohol-poisoning deaths per year rose from 18 in 1999 to 35 in 2005. [complete story on Dallas Morning News] |