Lowering the Drinking Age I: Presentation, Part 1 of 2

Lowering the Drinking Age I: Presentation, Part 1 of 2 – Stanton participated in a distinguished panel at Manhattanville College which debated lowering the drinking age. See Stanton Peele’s website at www.peele.net Find out more about Dr. Peele’s latest book at http

'Pre-drinking' leads to heavier booze, drug intake for college kids

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Pre-drinking is a bigger problem in the U.S. because the legal drinking age is higher than in Switzerland, said Dr. Christopher Welsh, an addiction psychiatrist at University of Maryland who was not involved with the study. "Young adults are drinking a …
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Pfaff '14: Drugs shouldn't be decriminalized

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Those who argue that we should consider lowering the drinking age — myself included — point to this scenario and say that if alcohol became less of a forbidden fruit, people would tame their consumption. But illicit drugs differ from alcohol in a …
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Brazil: Marijuana use begins at increasingly young age

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This study, which was conducted in 149 municipalities, interviewed 4,607 people, ages 14 and older, who responded to a confidential questionnaire with more than 800 questions about drug and alcohol use. About eight million Brazilians – 7% of the adult …
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