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“Our society condones it and it’s up to parents and adults to show kids it’s not cool,” she said.

Councilman Joe Hall, a committee member, said, “When a group of kids decides a 12-pack of beer in an apartment somewhere is more entertaining than a night of activity with no alcohol involved, we have more work to do.

They are wasting precious hours and time and that is something they can’t get back.” One woman who has lived through a firsthand consequence of adolescent alcohol abuse was committee member Patsy Adkins, who tragically lost her 17-year-old son in an alcohol-related accident five years ago.

“There is no parent out there who is immune to losing a child to alcohol,” she said.

“I don’t want any parent to go through what [my husband] and I went through these past five years.” All material copyright 2006 The Maryland Coast Dispatch, Berlin, MD.

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Researchers said overall costs did not go up and there was no huge rush of federal workers seeking mental health treatment.

"The big winners, in terms of reduced out-of-pocket spending, were the sickest patients, including those who needed hospital care," said Richard Frank, a professor of health economics at Harvard and one of the authors of the study.

If insurers had to increase premiums, the hike was at most .05 percent, the authors said.

The study was published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

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