• The number one cause of death among 15- to 19-year-olds is drinking and driving.
  
• Each year in the United States, more than 10,000 young people between the ages of 16 and 24 die in alcohol-related car crashes.
  
• More than 50 percent of the adults who are addicted to alcohol began drinking as teens.
  
• Alcohol and marijuana in combination have a greatly increased sedative effect. They impair manual dexterity, psychomotor skills, ability to process information, and visual disturbances.

Every year, alcohol is a factor in

• 70 percent of all murders
  
• 50 percent of all arrests
  
• nearly 50 percent of all fatal crashes involving young people
  
• 130,000 injuries to teen drivers
  
• over 50 percent of all drownings
  
• 44,000 deaths in U.S. car crashes
  
• up to 65 percent of all cases of domestic violence
  
• at least 45 percent of all cases of spousal abuse
  
• at least 49 percent of all child abuse
  
• 20 to 30 percent of all emergency room trauma cases
  
• 75 percent of all on-the-job accidents
  
• 50 percent of all rapes