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Alcohol

"Youth who start drinking before age 15 years are six times more likely to develop alcohol dependence or abuse later in life than those who begin drinking at or after age 21 years."

Facts & Statistics on Underage Drinking

  • Excessive drinking is responsible for more than 3,500 deaths and 210,000 years of potential life lost among people under age 21 each year.
  • Although drinking by persons under the age of 21 is illegal, people aged 12 to 20 years drink 4% of all alcohol consumed in the United States.  More than 90% of this alcohol is consumed in the form of binge drinks.
  • On average, underage drinkers consume more drinks per drinking occasion than adult drinkers.
  • ​Youth who drink alcohol are more likely to experience
    • School problems, such as higher absence and poor or failing grades.
    • Social problems, such as fighting and lack of participation in youth activities.
    • Legal problems, such as arrest for driving or physically hurting someone while drunk.
    • Physical problems, such as hangovers or illnesses.
    • Unwanted, unplanned, and unprotected sexual activity.
    • Disruption of normal growth and sexual development.
    • Physical and sexual assault.
    • Higher risk for suicide and homicide.
    • Alcohol-related car crashes and other unintentional injuries, such as burns, falls, and drowning.
    • Memory problems.
    • Abuse of other drugs.
    • Changes in brain development that may have life-long effects.
    • Death from alcohol poisoning.​

​​Sources: 

https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/underage-drinkin

https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sheets/underage-drink

    Videos

    Many people believe the only risk with underage drinking is driving under the influence, but there are so many more

    Drunk Driving Statistics

    Party Your Life Away-Mannequin Challenge

    Alcohol Presentation by Dr. Gilbert

    Dr. Gilbert conducts research to understand and address alcohol-related disparities. He is particularly interested in the ways that gender, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation shape drinking patterns, risk of alcohol use disorders, and use of treatment services. Among current projects, he is launching a national, NIH-funded study to investigate how people define recovery when they don’t seek treatment, the behavior change strategies leading to resolution of a drinking problem without treatment, and how untreated recovery may vary by gender and race/ethnicity. In addition, Dr. Gilbert is completing an interview study that was funded by a New Faculty Research Award from the College of Public Health to identify and describe the strategies people in Iowa have used to overcome alcohol problems when they don’t utilize treatment services. Additionally, he has recently completed a study of Iowa’s social host liability law that was supported by the Iowa Institute of Public Health Research and Policy and will be presenting findings on teenagers’ use of e-cigarettes and other substances at the 2019 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting. 

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