Jokin de Irala | Wednesday, 22 August 2007 Abstinence education: are we asking the right questions? Research findings seem to show that abstinence only education "doesn't work". Surely that means we have to make it better, not just give up. Teenagers can tend to live dangerously and society today gives them plenty of opportunities to do so. As a result, we are seeing epidemics of youthful drunkenness, drug-induced mental illness and sexually transmitted diseases, to mention only three of the excesses young people seem prone to. This week in Britain there are calls for the legal drinking age to be...