Sunday, April 6, 2008

Culture governs views on drink

There was a slight feeling of disappointment that so few people attended Wednesday nights town meeting on underage drinking at Central Bucks South High School.

About 30 people attended, many of them apparently known to each other through their involvement in CB Cares, a community coalition of individuals, businesses and agencies whose goal is to promote positive values, attitudes, and behaviors, particularly in kids.

The event was co-sponsored by the Central Bucks Drug Free Project, one of several such events being held in Bucks County over the next two weeks as part of the national Prevention of Underage Drinking Weeks.

Timothy Philpot of the Drug Free Project and associate director of the Bucks County Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence said that preventing underage drinking requires a change of culture and attitudes toward a problem the surgeon general has called a major public health issue.


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