Article: Parents urged to talk about drugs, alcohol.(Health)
The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR);  September 8, 2005 ;     700+ words ......or moderate risk of heavy alcohol use (92 percent) than they are of occasional...or very wrong ) and using alcohol (82 percent). About two-thirds of adults...for eighth-graders were 30 percent (alcohol), 9 percent (marijuana) and 8 percent...

Article: Diagnosing co-morbid drug use in patients with alcohol use disorders.(Clinical report)
Alcohol Research & Health;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ......those with 12-month alcohol use disorders was 13 percent (see figure 1). Conversely...12-month prevalence of alcohol use disorders was 8.46 percent (Stinson et al. 2005...seeking treatment for alcohol use disorders, 64 percent had a co-morbid drug...

Article: Drinking and thinking: what impact is alcohol having on today's youth?
Vibrant Life;  January 1, 1995 ;     698 words ......the eighth grade 70 percent of youth have tried alcohol. The average age of...administrators believe that alcohol is a factor in 41 percent of all academic problems...violent crime on campus is alcohol-related; 90 percent of all reported campus...

Article: Driving, Alcohol, and Drugs
Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior;      700+ words ......collisions and 33 percent of serious injury...collisions were alcohol-related. Although...significant decline in alcohol-related fatalities from a high of 57 percent in 1982 to 38...impairment even seen at alcohol levels below 0.02 percent (20mg/100mL...

Article: Alcohol's effects on adolescents.
Alcohol Research & Health;  December 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......graders and 45.1 percent of 12th graders reported using alcohol in the 30 days...to report using alcohol before age 13 (34.2 percent versus 24.2 percent...reported first using alcohol before 10th grade, compared with 53 percent in 1993 (the last...

Article: Alcohol affects 15 percent of workers, survey finds.(Brief article)
The Journal of Employee Assistance;  May 1, 2006 ;     295 words ......million workers (1.8 percent of the workforce) consumed alcohol at least once before...million workers (1.7 percent) worked while under the influence of alcohol; * 11.6 million...8.9 million (7.1 percent) drank alcohol during the workday...

Article: Study: 12 percent of Indian deaths due to alcohol
AP Online;  August 28, 2008 ;     449 words ......between 2001 and 2005 were alcohol-related, compared with 3.3 percent for the U.S. as a whole...listed are homicide (6.6 percent of alcohol-related deaths), suicide...deaths were attributed to alcohol were men, and 66 percent were people younger than...

Article: Advertising and the Alcohol Industry
Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior;      700+ words ......2 weeks was 30.8 percent in 1999, up from 27.5 percent in 1993. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms...that the level of alcohol use in 1996 was...use. Thirty-one percent of the heavy drinkers...drinkers, but only 1.9 percent of the nondrinkers...The high level of ...

Article: Alcohol in the life of a teen. (includes two true stores, and how to tell when drinking is becoming a problem)
Current Health 2, a Weekly Reader publication;  October 1, 1990 ;     700+ words ......findings: * 89 percent of 10th grade students...having tried an alcoholic beverage. * 53 percent of 10th grade students...reported having had an alcoholic beverage during the past month. * 38 percent of 10th grade students...two weeks. * 18 percent of 10th grade ...

Article: Lots of kids drink ... keeping teens away from alcohol is tough, but not impossible.
State Legislatures;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......behavior. Research supports her comments. Nearly 50 percent of teens have had at least one drink by the time they reach eighth grade, and 20 percent say they have been drunk, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Approximately 30 percent of 12th graders binge ...

Article: Crime and Alcohol
Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior;      700+ words ......addition to alcohol), and that alcohol is often blamed without...Justice, reviewed the role alcohol played in crime by looking...million, had been using alcohol at the time of the offense...being the most commonly used alcoholic beverage: 30 percent of probationers, 32 ...

Article: Finland to hike alcohol tax by 10 percent
AP Worldstream;  November 18, 2008 ;     114 words ......said it will hike the tax on alcohol by 10 percent next year in an attempt to...when health officials said alcohol had become the most common...alcohol tax by more than 40 percent in 2005 to discourage booze...consumption on ferries, where alcohol is tax free, to neighboring...

Article: Alcohol Abuse Still a Problem for Californians; Parents Reminded During Prom and Graduation Seasons to Speak with Their Children about Alcohol Use.
Business Wire;  April 29, 2005 ;     382 words ......those admitted for alcohol abuse treatment...Among youth, 23 percent of 11th graders...six-month period, 62.5 percent of 11th graders used alcohol. There is also substantial...evidence that early alcohol use can lead to...life. In 2002, 88 percent of adults admitted for ...

Article: Canada, Drug and Alcohol Use in
Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior;      700+ words ......who had consumed Alcohol at least once in...additional 13.5 percent said they were former...ethanol). Overall alcohol consumption has...1980s. In 1996, 29 percent of adults were current...been tested, 45 percent had positive Blood Alcohol Concentrations (BAC), with 28 percent ...