drinking of alcoholic beverages

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.

Traces the history of alcohol, discussing how it has been used and viewed throughout history by different cultures, why people behave differently when drunk, why it appeals to so many people, and other related topics.

Presents an expose on the complexity, magnitude, and cost of alcohol abuse as revealed through a study of the impact of alcohol on the community of Great Falls, Montana.

Explores the negative effects of alcohol abuse, and includes links to Internet sites for additional information.

Discusses the effects of alcohol on the human body, the dangers of alcohol abuse, and alcoholism treatment and prevention.

This book discusses issues relating to binge drinking, such as what happens when people binge drink, driving within two hours of a binge-drinking episode, the damage of alcohol to the body, why young people drink, and the need to reduce alcohol advertising.

Discusses the reasons why some people abuse alcohol, the debate whether alcoholism is a disease or a learned behavior, and treatment programs to help alcoholics and their families.

Discusses a diverse collection of personal narratives explaining what it is like to deal with underage drinking.

This book discusses alcoholism, a term for alcohol abuse, including its latest statistics, diagnoses, treatments, and scientific discoveries; the controversies over the treatments of alcoholism; and personal stories of people struggling with alcoholism.

Describes the effects of alcohol on the mind and body and discusses alcohol abuse, drunken driving, the drinking age, and reasons not to drink.