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August 3, 2008
It starts with Wisconsin looking in the mirror and admitting we have a drinking problem.
For the past several weeks, we've featured our Gannett Wisconsin Media "State of Drinking" series, a comprehensive and statistical glimpse of how a culture of drinking has ravaged Wisconsin. It showed how alcohol is a part of life here. And it demonstrated that culture is out of control, dictating legislation, ruining lives and tearing families apart
So what do we do about it? Wisconsin, just like any individual facing a problem, first has to admit it has one.
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