Alcohol usage facts

Here are some less known alcohol usage facts:

• Youngsters drinking alcohol before the seventh grade have a high probability to have problems in school after that, to use drugs, and to be arrested in middle school, and especially high school.

• By early adulthood, frequent alcohol usage may develop into unemployment troubles, drug usage, and delinquent or violent behavior

• An average of 29% of men have weekly alcohol drinking habit.

• Alcohol usage can cause depression.

• Many people using alcohol tend to acquire a history of alcohol abuse and/or alcohol dependence later on in life.

• Alcohol usage differs from person to person. Response to alcohol usage depends on what/if you’ve eaten, body weight, personal tolerance to alcohol, and other issues.

• Frequent alcohol usage can cause serious liver problems, amongst the most probable illnesses being liver disorder which can arise due to alcohol abuse being liver cirrhosis.

• Repeated alcohol usage can cause illnesses also in the brain, heart, pancreas and stomach.

• 50% of alcohol abusers have a fatty liver which is basically the falling apart of the liver.

• The first use of alcohol on average begins at 13 years of age, while marijuana at 14.

• Alcohol and drugs are the primary causes of injury and death.

• The cost of alcohol usage by teenagers last year is more than 50 billion dollars (this includes hospitalization, crashes, suicide attempts, treatments, and so on).