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Make a Difference: Talk to Your Child About Alcohol - Parents

By National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

With so many drugs available to young people these days, you may wonder, “Why develop a booklet about helping kids avoid alcohol?” Alcohol is a drug, as surely as cocaine and marijuana are. It’s also illegal to drink under the age of 21. And it’s dangerous.

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