A number of Wisconsin doctors have gotten together to try to do something about what they consider an "epidemic" in the state, drinking.
WBBM's Mike Krauser Reports.
Were you aware you could take your kids to a bar in Wisconsin and buy them a drink? As long as the bartender doesn't object, there's no law against it.
Doctor Lee Faucher, director of trauma at the University of Wisconsin Hospital, says they want to change laws and educate the public.
Faucher, director of trauma at the University of Wisconsin Hospital, says penalties are worse for beating your dog than they are for being in an alcohol-related crash with injuries.
It takes five DU-I's for a felony charge. Police sobriety checkpoints are against the law.
The public education campaign comes as Wisconsin again leads the nation in binge drinking...as it has every year since the government started keeping tabs more than a decade ago.
President Obama, in his weekly radio address, tells Congress to act quickly and pass financial reform to prevent economy from sliding into another Depression.
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