April is National Alcohol Awareness Month

Each April since 1987, the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. (NCADD) sponsors Alcohol Awareness Month to increase public awareness and understanding, reduce stigma and encourage local communities to focus on alcoholism and alcohol-related issues.

This April, NCADD highlights the important public health issue of underage drinking, a problem with devastating individual, family and community consequences. With this year’s theme, “Help for Today, Hope for Tomorrow,”

NCADD and Phillips County Coalition for Healthy Choices ask parents and other adults to abstain from drinking...