A story in the New York Times this morning titled "The Grim Neurology of Teenage Drinking" neatly sums up recent reseach about the damage that alcohol does to the adolescent brain.

"What was once a social and moral debate may soon become a neurobiological one," according to the article on the front page of the Science section. "The costs of early heavy drinking, experts say, appear to extend far beyond the time that drinking takes away from doing homework, dating, acquiring social skills, and the related tasks of growing up."

On the upbeat, there's also a story in the sports section about the return of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays' No. 1 pick in 1999 to minor league baseball after treatment for a cocaine addiction.

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