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About FROM BINGE TO BLACKOUT
Throughout his college years, Toren Volkmann partied like there was no tomorrow, having what was supposed to be the time of his life. Like so many parents, his mother, Chris, overlooked Toren’s growing alcohol problem. But when he graduated, Toren realized that he had become a full-blown alcoholic. And he was not alone.
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.
From Binge to Blackout calls us all out. It challenges each person to make a decision about drinking styles. Toren and Chris spill out the facts about our alcohol culture and how we’re drinking. They talk loud and clear about our glamorized drinking scene and the allure it has on kids and families. No one can read this book without examining the secretive way that alcohol oozes into our homes, drowns our students, and pickles our families.
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