Teacher Talk

Volume 3, Number 3

1996 Indiana University - The Center for Adolescent Studies

Alcohol Fact Sheet

Alcohol is a depressant: It slows the body's processes.

Alcohol is the most abused drug in the world.

The average age for people to start drinking in the United States is 12.9 years.

Drunk-driver crashes are the #1 cause of death for 15-24 year olds in the U.S.

80.7% of high school seniors have used alcohol.

52.5% of high school seniors have been drunk in their lifetime.

1 in 4 eighth graders have been drunk in their lifetime.

1 in 4 high school students drinks in quantities and with a frequency that indicates a problem.

1 in 4 children in every classroom lives in a home where someone is chemically dependent.

Almost half of all high school seniors (48%) have used illicit drugs in their lifetime.

Information taken in part from Monitoring the Future a report published by The University of Michigan in 1995.

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y need a year of counseling before the root causes of the addiction are dealt with.
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