SOBER YOUNGSTERS
March 1st, 2002
BY PHILIP FINE
AFTER pressure from the licensed beverage industry, America's National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) has admitted it overestimated its figures on underage drinkers. CASA had released a report stating that underage people drink 25 percent of the beverage alcohol consumed in the United States. The figure, part of their findings in a study called Teen Tipplers: America's Underage Drinking Epidemic, was challenged by the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS) as false and as an attempt to overstate the incidents of ...
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