Facts
-Each day, 7,000 kids in the United States under the age of 16 take their first drink.
-Research indicates that adolescents who abuse alcohol may remember 10% less of what they have learned than those who don’t drink.
-Evidence suggests that alcohol use by peers is a strong predictor of adolescent use of alcohol.
-Children of alcoholics are significantly more likely to initiate drinking during adolescence and to develop alcohol use disorders.
-Older siblings’ alcohol use can influence the alcohol use of younger siblings in the family, particularly for same sex siblings.
-In 2002, about 18 million adults in the US met diagnostic criteria for alcohol disorders.
-Long-term heavy alcohol use is the leading cause of illness and death from liver disease in the U.S.
*The above statistics came from the site: alcoholfreechildren.org
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