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The Epidemiology of Underage Drinking in the United States


The Epidemiology of Underage Drinking in the United States - NCBI

The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of what is known about the prevalence, patterns, and trends of underage drinking in this country from an ...

Underage Drinking in the United States (ages 12 to 20)

Prevalence of Underage Alcohol Use, People Ages 12 to 20 · 1.6 million males ages 12 to 20 (8.1% in this age group) · 1.7 million females ages 12 to 20 (9.2% in ...

About Underage Drinking | Alcohol Use - CDC

About 4,000 young people (under 21) die from excessive alcohol use each year.A1. These deaths, which could have been prevented, take the lives ...

Statistics on Underage Drinking - Responsibility.org

According to the 2023 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) report, about 5.6 million Americans between the ages of 12 and 20 report current alcohol ...

Underage Binge Drinking Varies within and across States - SAMHSA

Based on combined 2012–2014 NSDUH data, an annual average of 5.5 million people aged 12 to 20 in the U.S. engaged in binge drinking in the past ...

Underage Drinking in the United States: - The Pew Charitable Trusts

Underage drinking is estimated to account for between. 12% and 20% of the U.S. alcohol market.23 Even the lower estimate represents 3.6 billion drinks each year ...

Underage Drinking Statistics By State | Oxford Treatment

Underage Drinking In the United States · 1.82 million young people between the ages of 12 and 17 reported alcohol use in the last 30 days. · 1.17 ...

NSDUH Report: State Estimates of Underage Alcohol Use and Self ...

More than one quarter (26.6 percent) of persons aged 12 to 20 drank alcohol in the past month (Table 1). Rates of past month alcohol use were ...

Current and Binge Drinking Among High School Students - CDC

The overall prevalence of current drinking among US high school students declined significantly from 50.8% in 1991 to 44.7% in 2007, then further declined to ...

Underage Drinking - American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Alcohol continues to be the most widely used substance of abuse among America's youth and young adults, and a higher proportion use alcohol than tobacco or ...

2021 Report to Congress on the Prevention and Reduction of ...

Chapter 5, the. Report to Congress on the National Media Campaign to Prevent Underage Drinking, describes 2020 activities conducted by the campaign. U.S. ...

Report to Congress on the Prevention and Reduction of Underage ...

The Act states that: A multi-faceted effort is needed to more successfully address the problem of underage drinking in the United States. A ...

Reducing Underage Drinking: A Collective Responsibility (2004)

Despite minimum legal drinking age laws, actual drinking patterns in the United States suggest that almost all young people use alcohol before they are 21.

Really Underage Drinkers: The Epidemiology of Children's Alcohol ...

At each grade level, boys are more likely to have used alcohol than girls. African-American children are nearly as likely as white and Hispanic ...

Underage Drinking Statistics - USA Teens Drinking Stats - Alcohol.org

More than 70 percent of teens have consumed at least one alcoholic beverage by the time they reach age 18, which is still under the legal age.

Underage Drinking in the United States:

Underage drinking is estimated to account for between. 12% and 20% of the U.S. alcohol market.23 Even the lower estimate represents 3.6 billion drinks each year ...

Prevalence | College Drinking Prevention

Prevalence of Drinking: According to the 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 51.5% of full-time college students ages 18–22 drank alcohol in ...

Really underage drinkers: The epidemiology of children's alcohol ...

Little attention has been paid to alcohol use by children aged 12 and younger. The present article summarizes findings on the prevalence of alcohol use from ...

Underage Drinking Statistics | United States

Nearly 11 million underage people consume alcohol in the United States alone. These decisions can lead to extremely tragic and devastating consequences.

Alcohol consumption by youth in the United States - Wikipedia

Although the minimum legal age to purchase alcohol is 21 in all U.S. states and most territories the legal details for consumption vary greatly.