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years for starting to drink as young as fourth
grade; Study advises parents to talk to kids
early about alcohol abuse
By: Beth Furtwangler
I USA Today,
November 6, 2007
If
you wait until your children are in middle
school to talk to them about the dangers of
alcohol, you may be too late.
That's
the message being echoed this fall by educators
and substance-abuse experts in the wake of
a study released at the start of the school
year in which 7% of fourth-graders said they've
had an alcoholic drink in the past year.
Ten
percent had more than a sip of alcohol in
that time period, according to the study authored
by John Donovan, an associate professor of
psychiatry and epidemiology at the University
of Pittsburgh Medical Center. It was published
in the September issue of Prevention Science.
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