 | In a survey of 140 colleges, frequent binge
drinkers were 7-10 times more likely to:
have unplanned sex
have sex without using condoms
get into trouble with campus police, damage property, or be
injured |
| More than half of all high school students
had at least 1 alcoholic drink and 32.6% had 5 or more drinks on at least one
occasion during the 30 days preceding a 1995 national survey. |
| On sample college campuses, alcohol was
involved in 2/3 of student suicides, 90% of rapes, and 95% of violent crimes. |
| An estimated 10 million adults and 3 million
teenagers in the U.S. are alcoholics. |
| 54% of people in state prisons who were
convicted of violent crimes had used alcohol just before the offense. |
| Women develop complications of alcoholism,
such as liver damage, hypertension, anemia and malnutrition, faster and after
less alcohol intake than men. |
| 87% of teens have used alcohol by the time
they reach 12th grade. |
| More than 675,000 children are seriously
maltreated every year by an alcohol or drug abusing caretaker, according to
the National
Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse. |
| $118 BILLION is the estimated annual cost of alcohol addiction, according
to the
National Institute on
Drug Abuse. |
| Young adults, ages 18-29 drink about 45% of
the alcohol consumed in the United States. |
| Alcohol poisoning can result in
unconsciousness and death! |
| Alcohol abuse contributes to almost half of
all vehicle FATALITIES, the most frequent cause of death (28%) among young
Americans ages 5-24. |
| Removing the water from ethyl alcohol (the
alcohol in beer, wine, and liquor) leaves ether, an anesthetic. The National
Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) estimates that as many as
40% of young people have their first alcoholic drink by age 10. |
