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Article: Antidrug ad blitz criticized for omitting 'drug of choice' On Capitol Hill, pressure mounts to include underage drinking in $1billion campaign.
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- June 11, 1999
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College-bound Brendan Brogan feels fortunate. Back when he was 14, the New Jersey teen survived a night of binge-drinking that left him hospitalized.
Four years later, Mr. Brogan is urging the government to help millions of other youths avoid the same mistake by including alcohol warnings in a major new campaign against drug abuse.
So far, he has failed - but not for lack of compelling arguments.
"Most kids know exactly where they can get alcohol if they want to," Brogan says, citing studies showing that 90 percent of 10th-graders consider alcohol easy to obtain.
Readily available and culturally condoned, alcohol is the most widely ...