How to keep the kids off the hooch?
A journalist asks:
"Do graphic images of mutilated bodies of DUI victims help stop teens from drinking and driving? If that doesn't work, what does?"
Emphatically Yes and No--Yes, such graphic images do help teens understand they should not drink and drive and No, such graphic images do NOT help teens understand they should be stone-cold sober when driving.
Huh?
Depends on which teens you're talking about--those not predisposed to alcoholism and those who are so predisposed. After all, those predisposed have likely already triggered an incipient alcoholism (average age 13) and, therefore, already think they are more invincible than they already think by virtue of being teenagers. And alcoholics are not easily deterred from engaging in misbehaviors. (Non-addicts can be educated; ...
