Considered a rite of passage, teenage drinking has skyrocketed to epidemic proportions, fostering a generation of young adults whose lives are already beginning to come apart under the strain of alcoholism. This book, written from the viewpoints of both mother and son, is a riveting, enlightening, and heartbreakingly true story of a family able to confront the fear, pain, and denial that threatened to destroy them—and survive the epidemic of teenage drinking that's putting America's future at risk.

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