If a community wants to reduce the problems associated with binge drinking, its city leaders, campus officials and tavern owners have to stop finger-pointing and come to a consensus on what the problem is, an expert on college alcohol abuse prevention said Wednesday.
Susan Crowley, director of an alcohol abuse prevention program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said even though the Madison campus has not solved all its alcohol-related problems, it has reduced the rate of binge drinking on campus from 67 percent in 1999 to 59 percent this year.