Age & Alcohol
Wednesday, August 27 2008
by Daniel Zola, Eric Hodge, Katy Barron, and Susan Davis
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cover of "Binge"
Last week's proposal from the Amethyst Initiative, an organization of college presidents and administrators, to lower the national minimum drinking age from 21 to 18 has revived the debate over whether or not an age of responsibility exists. The group suggests that a reduced drinking age will help combat problems like binge drinking on college campuses, but opponents of the proposal are criticizing the initiative's argument for exaggerating potential effects of changing the law.
Guest host Eric Hodge discusses the issue with: Tom Szigethy, Duke University associate dean and director of the Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention Center; Robb Foss, director of the Center for the Study of Young Drivers at the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center; Georgia Ringle, Health and Substance Abuse Educator at Davidson College; Barrett Seaman, author of "Binge: What Your College Student Won't Tell You" (Wiley/2006); and Mike Males, principal investigator, Youth Facts.org. Listener Call-in/E-mail.
