Key facts on alcohol (and ecstasy) abuse
Key facts on alcohol (and ecstasy)
Almost half (46.6 percent) of Americans over the age of 12 have consumed an alcoholic
in the past month. The
of drinking with driving has dangerous and sometimes tragic results. In 1999, for example, 16,000 people were
and more than 300,000 were
as a result of a car or
crash involving alcohol. In fact, 3 out of 10 Americans will be
in an alcohol-related crash at some time in their lives. Though alcohol-related fatalities during the holiday season are at an all-time low (down 34 percent since 1995), impaired driving is still a leading cause of death for people under 30. For most people, even one drink can affect driving
. And contrary to popular notions, coffee cannot
someone who has had too much to drink. It takes one hour to metabolize one drink. Only time, and lots of it, can sober up someone who has
a lot.
As for ecstasy, from 1991 to 1998 the number of college students who have tried it almost
(.9 percent to 2.4 percent). An estimated 6.4 million per-sons have tried ecstasy at least once in their lifetimes. That
drug is one of the few whose use has increased
in recent years.
Fill the blanks with the following words, after looking them up in
the dictionary
abuse, sharply, tripled, illicit, sober up, truck, linkage, injured, beverage, skills, killed, imbibed, involved
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Prevention Alert
CLOZE number 3817 since September 19, 2000.