by Elizabeth M. Whelan

About the author: Elizabeth M. Whelan is president of the American Council on Science and Health, a consumer education organization that studies health and nutrition.

My Colleagues at the Harvard School of Public Health, where I studied preventive medicine, deserve high praise for their 1995 study on teenage drinking. What they found in their survey of college students was that they drink “early and . . . often,” frequently to the point of getting ill.

Professional and Personal Concerns

As a public-health scientist with a daughter, Christine, heading to college this fall, I have professional and personal concerns about teen binge drinking. It is imperative that we explore why so many young people abuse alcohol. From my own study of the effects of alcohol restrictions and my observations of Christine and her friends&rsquo...