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Evaluating Retailer Behavior in Preventing Youth Access to Harmful Legal Products A Feasibility Test

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This article reports results from a feasibility study of a community effort to reduce the availability of legal products that youth can use to get high. The study evaluated the potential of youth purchase attempts to detect actual changes in retail availability of harmful legal products. These results were triangulated with self-reports from retailers about their own policies and practices. Before the intervention, less than half of retailers reported using any of six possible strategies identified as ways to reduce youth access to harmful products, and less than 8% of baseline youth attempts to purchase potentially harmful legal products were refused or questioned. After the low-dosage intervention, retailers reported increased use of three strategies and a statistically significant increase in the percentage of purchase attempts that were either questioned or refused by retail clerks. These findings (a) demonstrate the potential feasibility of retailer-focused environmental strategies and (b) support continued use of youth purchase attempts as a measure of actual retailer behavior.

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Series Title

Evaluation Review

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Publisher

Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publication., 2009

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Language

English

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0193-841x

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Volume 33, Number 5, October 2009.pp. 497-515

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Harmful legal products
Environmental strategies
Youth purchase attempts
Alaskan retailers
Evaluating Retailer Behavior in Preventing Youth

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