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They call it "the switch." Alcoholics who take an anticraving medication called baclofen say the drug allows them to resist the most powerful triggers of relapse: former drinking buddies, a favorite bar, the sight of alcohol or even the most potent drinking cue of all, having a single drink...
...business owner in the Midwest, who asked not to be identified by his real name, experienced his switch at a dinner party two years ago. Bob had battled alcohol dependency for several decades, regularly drinking at least 35 beers a week. Normally he would have downed several glasses of wine before dinner, he says, but that night, after taking baclofen for two weeks, he found himself sipping soda water instead, engrossed in conversation. "I realized I wasn't having that nagging feeling in my head, 'I should really get a drink,'" says Bob. "It never appeared during the dinner either...
When it approved the measure earlier this month, the Milan city council unveiled a study that showed that 34% of 11-year-olds have "problems with alcohol" (without specifying what those problems are). In June the Alcohol Observatory of the Italian National Health Institute found that 63% of youths under 18 get drunk on weekends, with boys consuming an average of four drinks per drinking session and girls consuming...
This let's-go-get-loaded spirit might not seem so strange in countries that have long battled excessive youth drinking and alcoholism. But Italy has always prided itself on a balanced - even divine - rapport with the strong stuff. Call it a sipping culture rather than a drinking culture: Italians traditionally serve wine at the family dinner table, with boys and girls often getting their first taste of alcohol around age 12. The national minimum drinking age of 16 is often ignored and rarely enforced. (Read "Should the Drinking Age Be Lowered...
...northern city of Milan has decided that the festa is over. Citing some alarming statistics about preteen alcohol abuse, the city has imposed a strict new local law that goes beyond the legislation that currently allows only those over 16 to buy booze. For the first time in Italy, the parents of anyone underage caught drinking and anyone who supplies someone under 16 with alcohol will face punishment, with a fine...