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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...

Lest anyone speciously claim that Lithuania's raising of the their drinking age from 18 to 20 effective January 1, 2018 somehow saved li...

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...

Sometimes the truth is literally hiding in plain sight.  A good, bias-free way to examine the supposed lifesaving effects of a policy would ...

South Africa has had the dubious distinction of being the only country in the (non-Muslim) world to ban all alcohol sales during their coron...

Perish the thought, but it looks like the utterly vile and ageist abomination that is the 21 drinking age will not be lowered to 18 (or even...

The latest 2019 Montoring the Future survey results are in .  And while the mainstream media are hyping this year's significant increas...

Are Baby Boomers (i.e. the generation born between 1946-1964) really a generation of sociopaths and/or narcissists?  That is in fact the con...

One of our favorite journalists, Annie Lowrey , recently wrote an article titled, "America's Invisible Pot Addicts".  While s...

The results of the annual Monitoring the Future survey for 2017 are in.  And here is a brief summary of the results: Alcohol use in gene...

A black market (or underground economy) typically occurs when the legitimate market for a particular good or service is either nonexistent, ...

Almost immediately after posting a recent article about the roundly debunked "gateway drug theory", we at Twenty-One Debunked fe...