LETTER TO THE EDITOR |
Robert M. Bossarte, PhD
Department of Community Medicine
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV 26506
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Identifying and treating conduct disorder (CD), as Dr Modesto-Lowe suggests, may be one strategy for preventing early alcohol initiation by addressing the link between CD and alcohol use.1–3 However, because the prevalence of CD is low (1%–4% of 9- to 17-year-olds)1 relative to early alcohol use, efforts that focus