Underage drinking has devastating consequences

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By Cindy Schultz

Special to The SUN

Each April since 1987, the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence Inc. (NCADD) sponsors NCADD Alcohol Awareness Month to increase public awareness and understanding, reduce stigma and encourage local communities to focus on alcoholism and alcohol-related issues.

This April, NCADD highlights the important public health issue of underage drinking, a problem with devastating individual, family and community consequences.

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