Sumner County Community Drug Action Team, Inc.

In response to the wide ranging and devastating consequences of underage drinking such as traffic crashes and fatalities, sexual assault and other forms of violence, alcohol toxicity, and suicide, with an estimated annual social cost of at least $53 billion, the National Academies Institute of Medicine urged state and local governments to enact a comprehensive set of strategies to reduce underage consumption.

These strategies include strengthening social host liability laws to deter underage drinking parties

and other gatherings.

What Is Social Host Liability?

Laws prohibiting furnishing alcoholic beverages to underage persons target the provision of

alcoholic beverages to underage persons.

In contrast, social host liability laws target the location in which underage drinking takes place.

Social host liability laws hold non-commercial individuals responsible for

underage drinking events on property they own, lease, or otherwise control.

{This information from the site: www.SocialHost.org.}