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What we call the "journey-destination problem" is the fact that journeys are often much more dangerous than destinations.  For exa...

Americans are still  drowning in the bottle  to this day, and paying a heavy price for it.  While the pandemic and especially the lockdowns ...

Americans are still drowning in the bottle to this day.  While the pandemic and especially the lockdowns were gasoline on the fire, that fi...

We at Twenty-One Debunked have long supported hiking alcohol taxes as an alternative to illiberal (and highly inequitable) blunt-instrument ...

This year, a new study came out in The Lancet that looked at the long-term differences in alcohol-related morbidity and mortality between b...

Concerned about falling alcohol tax revenue, as well company profits, the government of Japan is now literally encouraging young adults to ...

With all the news about tobacco, vaping, opioids, and cannabis lately, Twenty-One Debunked had almost forgotten about the very substance tha...

It has been three decades since the last state, Wyoming, raised their legal drinking age to 21 in 1988 under federal duress.  And since then...

As we had noted in a previous post four years ago, rape and sexual assault is a persistent epidemic in the USA, including (but not limited ...

Avid readers of our blog would note that Twenty-One Debunked  supports raising the tax on alcoholic beverages almost as wholeheartedly as w...

A recent article in Prevention discusses a recent study by NIAAA, that finds that alcoholism (or clinically speaking, "alcohol use di...

Sometimes an idea comes along that is so compelling that even polar opposites of a particular ideological or public policy spectrum are will...

With the issue of alcohol taxes now coming to the forefront lately, there is also another policy measure designed to reduce the problems an...

While the opioid epidemic has recently been declared a public health emergency, what if we were to tell you that there is another drug epide...

While the opioid epidemic has recently been declared a public health emergency, what if we were to tell you that there is another drug epide...