Alcohol Awareness Facts
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- Between two per cent and three per cent of the current American college population will die from alcohol related causes.
- 30 percent of college failure is alcohol related.
- Drinking and driving is the number one killer of Americans between the ages of 17-24.
- In the U.S., 70 people are killed daily in drunk driving accidents, that is roughly one person killed every 22 minutes.
- 69 per cent of all drownings are alcohol related.
- One in every three suicides involves alcohol.
- The average female college student spends $150.00 per year on alcohol.
- The average male college student spends $300.00 per year on alcohol.
- The average DUI arrest costs the charged person $3000.00
- Alcohol plays a role in 50 per cent of all arrests.
- 90 per cent of the vandalism that occurs on college campuses is a result of alcohol use.
- 75 per cent to 90 per cent of campus rapes involve alcohol use.
- 65 per cent of men and 50 per cent of women involved in sexual assaults had been drinking prior to the assault.
- The abuse of alcohol is present in 70 per cent of all murders and other violent crimes.
- 54 per cent of alcoholics have an alcoholic parent.
- One out of three Americans don't drink - and that's okay too.
