Alcohol: The Pandemic of Our Times
13 Feb
Just to recap some of the statistics of the plague of alcohol upon our modern day society and our young people:
Alcohol usage or misuse and alcohol related deaths are the number one killer of that same age bracket;
What numerous people do not realize is that many, if not most of the 50,000 cases of alcohol poisoning in the United States each year do not result from alcohol addiction, but rather from instance of alcohol abuse. Indeed, binge drinking, a type of alcohol abuse, leads to perhaps the majority of alcohol overdose cases that are reported each year. Obviously, many people are not aware of this information or about alcohol facts such as these.
While underage drinking is a factor in nearly in nearly half of all teen automobile crashes, the leading cause of death among teenagers. (more…)
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