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Teen Drinking: The Whole Story

"Not every kid is going to get in the car, drive drunk, and die.  But there will be that kid who kid who has to have his stomach pumped.  Don’t so much remind them that drinking does not [just] equal death but it does equal a lot of things.  You have to evaluate every part of the ‘what can happen’ and make sure they know every consequence."

This is the advice to adults from a seventeen-year-old girl who has made a decision not to drink alcohol as a minor.  She is one of 10 young people from Essex County who are featured in my new underage drinking prevention program, Underage Drinking: Not Everyone is Doing It.

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