Mind the Gap: Bridging the Divide Between Current Binge Drinking Prevention and the Needs of Hispanic Underage Emerging Adults

• Published in: Prevention science Vol. 20; no. 7; pp. 1114 - 1124
• Main Authors: Petrova, Mariya, Martinez, Charles R., Jean-Jacques, Jennifer, McClure, Heather H., Pantin, Hilda, Prado, Guillermo, Schwartz, Seth J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01-10-2019; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Adults; Alcohol use; Binge Drinking - prevention & control; Child and School Psychology; Culture; Drinking age; Drinking behavior; Female; Health Psychology; Hispanic or Latino; Hispanic people; Humans; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Prevention; Prevention programs; Public Health; Social Environment; Underage drinking; Underage Drinking - prevention & control; United States; Young Adult; Young adults; United States; United States > US; Binge drinking; Prevention; Intervention; Alcohol; Emerging adult; Hispanic
• ISSN: 1389-4986; 1573-6695; 1573-6695
• DOI: 10.1007/s11121-019-01026-0

In this article, we highlight the urgent public health need for prevention of heavy episodic drinking among underage Hispanic emerging adults in the USA. We outline the current state of binge drinking prevention programming and contrast it with the unique cultural, social, and developmental realities of this population using an ecodevelopmental framework (Szapocznik and Coatsworth
1999
). Finally, we advance specific recommendations for the development and delivery of culturally tailored, multisystemic binge drinking prevention programs for underage Hispanic emerging adults.