California State Juvenile Officers Association

Film, Forum Confronts Teen Drinking

Mercury News by Jennifer Squires
SANTA CRUZ — Binge drinking is popular and it’s too easy for kids to get their hands on booze in Santa Cruz County, but solving the problem is not as simple as locking liquor and telling kids “no.” But there are other solutions that involve many aspects of the community, from parents talking to their kids to teens intervening when their friends want to drive drunk to better policing of merchants that sell alcohol to minors.

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