Winooski ATI featured on Local 22 Local 44

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Winooski Middle School students involved with Winooski Partnership for Prevention’s after school program Above the Influence were featured on the Local 22 Local 44 news hour for their participation in the nationwide underage drinking awareness campaign “Sticker Shock.”

Executive Director Kate Nugent and four students traveled to Beverage Warehouse in Winooski the afternoon of April 30 to tag alcoholic beverages with stickers, which ask 21+ buyers to keep the substances out of the hands of minors.

The group targeted beverages that appeal to underage drinkers, i.e. ciders, alcoholic seltzers, lemonade, etc.

According to the 2017 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the majority of underage drinkers did not pay for the alcohol the last time they drank (71%) and the most common source of alcohol for these youth was an unrelated person aged 21 or older (32%).

Underage drinking is harmful because it negatively impacts brain development and increases the risk of physical and sexual assault, other drug abuse, heavy drinking later in life, suicide and homicide.

Sticker Shock is geared to raise public awareness about underage drinking and reduce the social and retail availability of alcohol to minors.