Underage alcohol use is a sweeping problem with serious health and safety repercussions for the Nation. A substantial number of young people begin drinking before the age of 13, which frequently results in alcohol abuse or dependence. The highest prevalence of alcohol dependence is among people ages 18-20. The conclusion being that the impetus is on parents and people in the community to educate

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Alcohol is ranked much more harmful than the Class A drug Ecstasy in a new classification system proposed by a team of leading scientists.  The team identified three main factors that together determine the harm associated with any drug  of potential  abuse: the physical harm to the individual user caused by the drug; the tendency of the drug to induce dependence and addiction; and the effect of

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That's how many people we lose each year to traffic accidents involving alcohol. Some of those people will be great people, valuable people, people who were not themselves at fault. People who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. What could we do with these 13,000 people who died needlessly? Could we have more good teachers? More volunteers? More good fathers, fewer kids losing their

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It's bad enough that there are plant and chemical substances that are used as drugs, destroy people's lives and harm health and one's very ability to live. There also have to be pharmaceutical companies that develop more addictive substances and make them legal so they are in circulation in society. Then they promote them to doctors, concealing their addictiveness. Then they take a further step

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I was never an addict but I did use drugs back in the day. I think that part of the mentality of using drugs, whether you are addicted or not, is that you think you can get by without paying the price for something you do that is dangerous, damaging, neglectful of responsibilities. But it is never true. That price is exacted. It may only come out in your own decline of happiness but it is paid.

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