Alcohol use facts

Every year, an average person in the United States are flooded with more than 1,000 commercials for beer and wine coolers in addition to several thousand fictional drinking events on television.

Out of 50% of all driving fatalities, alcohol was involved.

Every 30 minutes, a person is killed related to an alcohol accident in the United States.

Over 15 million Americans are alcohol dependent.  500,000 are between the age of 9 and 12.

$2 billion dollars a year is spent by the liquor industry boosting alcoholic beverages through advertising. $90 billion dollars on alcohol each year is spent by Americans.

On average, Americans may have over 25 gallons of beer, 2 gallons of wine, and 1.5 gallons of distilled spirits a year.

Pregnant women who drink are providing alcohol as food to their babies and the alcohol stays in the bab’s system twice as long.  This is because the liver of the baby is underdeveloped and can only burn alcohol at half the rate of its mother.

Each year, more money is spend on alcohol $5.5 billion by students then on soft drinks, tea, milk, juice, coffee, or books combined.

56% of students in grade 5 to 12 say that alcohol advertising encourages them to drink. 6.6% of employees in full time jobs inform on heavy drinking, defined as drinking five or more drinks per occasion on five or more days in the past 30 days.

Unemployed people between the age of 26 to 34 are found to be the highest percentage of heavy drinkers (12.2%). Up to 40% of all industrial deaths and 47% of industrial injuries can be associated to alcohol consumption. In 2000, nearly 7 million persons age 12 to 20 were binge drinkers in the year 2000.  Which means one in five persons under the legal drinking age were binge drinkers.

A survey done in 2001 showed 25 million (one in ten) Americans reported driving under the influence of alcohol.  Three million more than the previous year and this includes 23% of young adults age 18 to 25 drove under the influence of alcohol.

Drunk driving is establishing to be deadlier than what once thought.  Sadly, the latest death statistics released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), showed that 17,488 people where killed by alcohol related traffic accidents last year.  This report symbolizes virtually 800 more people that were killed than the previous year. The number one drug problem in America is Alcohol.

Within their own families alcoholism has been exposed by 43% of Americans.

Those being diagnosed for alcohol related effects that are admitted to hospitals, nearly one out of four of them has a alcohol problem or are undiagnosed alcoholics.

The American economy spends at least $100 million in health care and burdens a loss of productivity every year due to alcohol and alcohol related problems.

Alcohol is a factor in violence say four out of ten criminal offenders.

Among spouse violence victims, three out of four were reported to have involved alcohol use.

Local law enforcement agencies made an estimated 1,467,300 arrests nationwide for driving under the influence of alcohol in the year 1996.

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