drinking of alcoholic beverages

Uses data from the Gallup Youth Survey and other sources to examine issues related to teenage drinking.

Explains what alcohol is, what it does to the body, and how it makes people behave, identifies the risks of drinking alcohol, and offers advice on how to say no to drinking and what to do when alcohol becomes a problem.

An overview of Prohibition that discusses the debate over the ban of alcohol, home brewing, police corruption, its repeal, and other related topics, and includes photographs, a time line, and a list of additional resources.

Nineteen articles present information on the history of alcohol and debate issues surrounding alcohol use, covering topics such as drinking patterns in ancient Egypt, alcohol for votes in colonial America, Prohibition, alcohol advertising, drunk driving laws, and health benefits and risks.

Articles, essays, historical documents, and book excerpts examine the social and political controversies surrounding teenage alcoholism, covering topics such as patterns of alcohol consumption, underage drinking and the media, parental responsibility, underage alcohol policies.

Provides the reader with information on how alcohol affects the body, the history of alcohol, the consequences of underage drinking, and the high cost of alcohol abuse.

This book examines teen drinking and offers real-world ways to say no to drinking.

Collects sixteen essays that offer opposing viewpoints on issues concerning alcohol, debating if it poses a threat to society, if the drinking age should be lowered, and how to prevent drunk driving.

This book presents the long-term effects to the human body of tobacco and alcohol and discusses the causes and costs of abusive use.

Presents more than twenty essays and case studies on teens and alcohol, covering such aspects as alcohol poisoning, alcoholism, drunk driving, drinking age laws, alcohol and sex, and helping someone who has a drinking problem, and also includes a bibliography and a list of organizations and Web sites.