Alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence are not only adult problems, they also affect a significant number of adolescents and young adults between the ages of twelve and twenty, even though drinking under the age of twenty-one is illegal. “Despite the fact that the nation’s per capita alcohol consumption has been on a decline for years, drinking among minors, in the words of Surgeon General Antonio Novello ‘is out of control’” (Elson 1).

For decades the widespread frequency and consequences of

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