Great Article Profiling a Teen's Struggle with Alcoholism

http://www.parents.com/teens-tweens/behavior-responsibilities/behavior/teens-alcoholism-struggle/?sssdmh=dm17.351747&esrc=nwpce25_09&email=1753849143

Unsupervised Teen Party

http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-web-teen-pageant-drinking-0304mar05,0,1460401.story

Web Site: We Don't Serve Teens

Kids Who Wear Beer Gear

New Study: The more you watch the more you drink

http://tinyurl.com/dg5dwg

College life WITHOUT drinking - a student's perspective

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/sober-in-the-animal-house/?emc=eta1

Alcohol linked to brain problems in young and old

http://freshstory.org/blog/freshstory.php?p=80&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#more80

Summer Issue of the MADD Advocate

http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/mcmurry/maddvocate_2009summer/#/0

Teen Survey on Alcohol Use

The Power of Parents

http://www.thepowerofparents.org/

Why 21, Revisited

In June I wrote a blog about the controversy over the national drinking age of 21 and the move to reopen this discussion on college campuses.  Over the weekend someone sent me this article, http://freshstory.org/blog/freshstory.php?p=103&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#more103, which reminded me about 'why the stakes are so high around this issue. 

The fact is that many teens who do drink tend to binge, and it's clear from this and other research that the consequences are significant.  So ...

What kinds of questions parents are asking when they drop their child off at a friend's house

At recent fall events, members of iParentnetwork were out meeting and greeting members of each of the three communities.  We surveyed parents on a number of questions, one of which was this question: "What kinds of questions do you ask when you drop your child off at a friend's house?"

We were pleased to report that parents are asking questions and even more pleased at the variety of questions parents were posing.  We thought it ...

Underage Drinking In the News

The issue of underage drinking has been in the Connecticut news a lot during the last month with the suspension of football players and cheerleaders (later reduced) in East Haven and the release of 26 names of underage youth arrested at a party in Cheshire.  In both of these cases the thing that struck me was the powerful community opposition that arose to the consequences that were imposed on the violators. 

In East Haven 80 ...

Students learn about underage drinking by studying the science behind it

Students in Boston, using a pilot program developed by the National Institutes for Health in conjunction with scientists from Boston University, study the effects that drinking have on mice.  Studying this in this way seems to have had an impact on the way teens look at alcohol consumption.  Watch the video to learn more about this.

Why 21?

Last summer many of you may have heard about a movement on college campuses to examine lowering the minimum drinking age from the current 21. Called the “Amethyst Initiative” (named for the purple gemstone amethyst, which in Ancient Greece was widely believed to be an antidote to the negative effects of intoxication), this group consisted of chancellors and presidents of universities and colleges across the United States (www.amethystinitiative.org).  The Amethyst Initiative called upon elected ...

It Takes A Village...

As a young boy growing up in Huntington, Long Island in the 50’s and early 60’s, I was guided and nurtured not only by my parents, but also by many of their friends in the neighborhood. My parents’ friends became my adoptive “aunts” and “uncles,” who all knew how I was doing in school, who came to all of my high school football games, and who were clearly invested in me as I developed from ...