June 21, 2010

HEADLINES

Survey: Binge drinking a problem Jun. 18, 2010 4:26 pm Pueblo Chieftain CO

More than half of Adams State College students and 72 percent of Trinidad State Junior College students younger than 21 drank alcohol on two or more days in the last 30 days, according to a survey by the San Luis Valley Prevention Coalition’s Underage Drinking Task Force... Read full story...

Group aims to curb binge drinking Jun. 18, 2010 5:12 am WXOW.com WI

A group consisting of educators, law enforcement personnel, attorneys, and other officials spent nine months looking at ways to change Wisconsin's drinking culture... Read full story...

Facing the youth alcohol problem Jun. 17, 2010 10:56 pm Santa Rosa Press Democrat CA

Petaluma’s disturbing trend of youth alcohol use shows few signs of abating. You can see it in statistics that show Petaluma teens drink alcohol and engage in binge drinking more frequently than their counterparts around the state... Read full story...

Should Parents Be Jailed When Kids Drink? Jun. 18, 2010 4:00 am New York Times USA

It’s graduation party season, which means social host laws that hold parents responsible for teenage drinking are back in the news. Last week, two Harvard Medical School professors were arrested because teenagers were found drinking at their daughter’s graduation party, though they said they did not see the alcohol... Read full story...

Five-year-olds should be taught dangers of alcohol: Nice Jun. 17, 2010 7:35 am Telegraph UK

The National Institute for health and Clinical Excellence, which advises Government on public health issues as well as approving drugs for use on the NHS, has called for improvement to the way sex, relationship and alcohol issues are taught... Read full story...

Binge Drinking Up Among Teens Jun. 17, 2010 2:52 pm The Bahama Journal Bahamas

After interviewing 2,036 students in grades 8, 10 and 12, National Anti-Drug Secretariat (NADS) officials have concluded that a total of 51.8 per cent of students have engaged in one or more binge drinking sessions... Read full story...

Upping the ante on underage drinking Arizona Daily Wildcat AZ

The University of Arizona and Tucson police departments are collaborating with local liquor merchants to hold those who provide alcohol to underage drinkers more accountable... Read full story...

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