Word: perlstein
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...national president of the P.T.A., called the idea "outrageous." Iowa Governor Harold E. Hughes, who freely admits to an alcoholic past, said he was "1,000% against the idea. Children should be taught the dangers of alcohol but not how to use it," he said. New York Psychiatrist Abraham Perlstein, who has studied the problem of drinking by juveniles, offered another perspective. Teaching children how to drink, he argued, would neither increase nor decrease alcoholism; it would merely prove ineffective. In Perlstein's view, emotional disturbance, not alcohol itself, is what creates alcoholics...