Alcohol Awareness Month

April is a month with many important awareness campaigns. One that I would like to highlight today is "Alcohol Awareness Month."

This segment regarding youth statistics is copied from http://www.ncadd.org/index.php/programs-a-services/alcohol-awareness-month:

"Alcohol use by young people is extremely dangerous—both to themselves and to society, and is directly associated with traffic fatalities, violence, suicide, educational failure, alcohol overdose, unsafe sex and other problem behaviors. Annually, over 6,500 people under the age of 21 die from alcohol-related accidents and thousands more are injured. Additionally:

• Alcohol is the number one drug of choice for America's young people, and is more likely to kill young people than all illegal drugs combined. 
• Each day, 7,000 kids in the United States under the age of 16 take their first drink. 
• Those who begin drinking before age 15 are four times more likely to develop alcoholism than those who begin at age 21. 
• More than 1,700 college students in the U.S. are killed each year—about 4.65 a day—as a result of alcohol-related injuries. 
• 25% of U.S. children are exposed to alcohol-use disorders in their family. 
• Underage alcohol use costs the nation an estimated $62 billion annually."

  

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