Underage youth consume 23.7% of the alcohol sold in the United States.
According to the 2005 Youth Risk Behavioral Survey:
- in the past 30 days 32% of students surveyed rode in car driven by someone who had been drinking.
- in the past 30 days 17% of students surveyed drove a car when they had been drinking.
- in the past 30 days 47% of students surveyed stated they had at least one drink of alcohol.
- in the past 30 days 34% of students surveyed stated they had 5 or more drinks in a row. That is defined as binge drinking.
- More than 40 percent of individuals who begin drinking before age 13 are classified with alcohol dependence at some time in their lives.
- Rates of alcohol dependence among those who started drinking at ages 17 and 18 were 24.5 percent and 16.6 percent, respectively.
- Those who start drinking before age 14 are 12 times more likely to be injured than those who begin drinking at or after age 21.
- Those under age 21 account for 11.2% of our licensed drivers but they represent 25.1% of drivers in injury/fatal accidents.
- 65% of kids who drink say they get their alcohol from family and friends.
In 2005, alcohol-involved crashes injured 169 South Dakota teenagers.
In 2005, 10 South Dakota teenagers (age 13 to 19) and one child died in alcohol-involved crashes.
http://www.state.sd.us/dps/AccidentRecords/stats.htm
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