Public links 'alcopops' to underage drinking

3,598 views · Published 3 April 2009 · 2:43 · Indexed 30 October 2026

Channel: Michigan Medicine · 2009 · Science & Technology

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This summer, will your kids be popping open a soft drink or a hard one?  Flavored alcoholic beverages, also known as alco-pops, are becoming more and more popular, particularly among young people.  A newly released C.S. Mott Childrens Hospital National Poll on Childrens Health asked parents about their concerns over alco-pop and its relationship to underage drinking.  Poll director, University of Michigan pediatrician Dr. Matthew Davis discusses the results and some of the controversy bubbling up over these sweet alcoholic beverages.

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