Twenty-One Debunked

Last year, we noted the success story of British Columbia, Canada in reducing DUI fatalities by over 40% in a single year .  This notable a...

In the USA, teen drinking has been falling since about 1980, with the exception of a brief increase from 1993-1997, and has  reached a recor...

See previous posts as well.   It's been a while, and in the past few months or so: An underage drinker did NOT drunkenly drive her Mer...

This Memorial Day, let's not forget those who died for our country BEFORE they were old enough to drink legally.  A list of all those wh...

Recently, there has been a great deal of scare stories regarding the supposed dangers of alcohol mixed with energy drinks (AMEDs for short)....

Anyone who has looked at the news in the past two weeks is probably familiar with the latest moral panic:  teenagers drinking hand sanitizer...

A number of studies suggest that alcohol and cannabis (marijuana) are economic substitutes, meaning that when one increases, the other tend...

Two decades ago, Wellesley College professor Peggy McIntosh coined the term " invisible knapsack " to refer to the subtle and not-...

Just in time for the new movie Project X , a new study comes out that suggests that movies with scenes of alcohol consumption apparently le...

A new study by Barnum et al. (2012) on drinking age law enforcement was recently published online this month.  In this first-of-its-kind st...