alcohol

Provides students and other readers with the information they need to explore alcohol and think critically about the worldwide implications of the global issue.

Discusses the effects and dangers of tobacco, alcohol, and such drugs as marijuana and other narcotics.

Toby Hardin, struggling to fit in after his father's job in the Air Force relocated the family to Florida, begins skateboarding and faces tough decision about his new friends when one of them begins drinking alcohol.

Through text and photographs, the author explores the reasons why young people drink, and explains how alcohol affects their lives.

Discusses what it is like to be a teenager who drinks too much, who is likely to become an alcoholic, why teens drink, alcohol's effect on body and mind, drinking and driving, and living with alcoholic parents.

Focuses on alcohol, the most widely used drug in the world, its role in religion and history, how it is made, the alcohol industry, advertising, consumption, and abuse.

Explores whether the MLDA has been effective, efforts to lower the MLDA, impact of MLDA on the safety of women, and legal drinking age outside the US.

Discusses the social and physical effects of alcohol, the reasons teenagers drink, the problems caused by teenage alcoholism, and possible preventive measures and treatments.

Simple text and photos explain why some people drink alcohol and what an alcoholic is.