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Editorial: Time to stop enabling tragedy

Find a problem drinker and an enabler is likely hovering nearby.

The roots of Wisconsin’s culture of drinking are sunk deep in the state’s history, its ethnic heritage and the natural inclination of its residents to fit in. But a culture of drinking is inseparable from a culture of enabling – and much of this enablement resides in Madison, embodied in state laws and what is deliberately left out of them.