Doug Bandow

The health crisis caused by underage drinking proclaimed by the National Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia (CASA) does not exist, Doug Bandow argues in the following viewpoint. He contends that CASA’s study is comprised of inaccurate statistics and erroneous conclusions that merely serve to advance the group’s prohibitionist agenda. Bandow maintains that prohibiting teens from drinking will not reduce alcohol-related problems among youth; rather, parents should teach their teens to drink responsibly. Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, a conservative think tank, and a regular contributor to publications such as Fortune magazine.

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1. According to Bandow, what is Califano’s plan for curbing underage drinking"
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