Alcoholism Statistics
1) Every year in the U.S a young person mostly gets inundated by the 1000s of wine and beer cooler commercials, there are several other cases of accidents inspired by these drinking advertisements.
2) Including all the drunken driving accidents nearly 50% of these cases are due to use of alcohol.
3) Due to alcohol related traffic accident in U.S nearly one person is killed in every 30 minutes.
4) There are 500,000 children between the ages of 9-12 that are dependent on alcohol use.
5) Total 15 million people are under the influence of alcohol.
6) Almost $2 billion is spent by the liquor industry every year to promote alcohol in U.S.
7) Each year nearly 2 gallon of wine, 25 gallon beer and 1.5 gallon of distilled spirit is consumed by an average American.
8) Students every year spend more than $5.5 billion on alcohol, which is more than total consumption on soft drinks.
9) 6.6% of the staff members tell they are under heavy alcoholic habits.
10) Unemployed youth between 26-34 years of age consume the maximum alcohol.
11) Upto 40% of the industrial fatalities are due to alcohol related injuries.
12) In the year 2000 there were 7 million alcohol drinkers between the ages of 12-20.
13) 25 million of teens according to a survey were found diving under the influence of alcohol. Among people of age 18-25 years 23% drove under alcohol influence.
14) Nearly 800 people more were killed in drunken driving accidents, which showed that the drinking and driving incidents increased to a very high stage.
15) Alcohol has recently become the number 1 drug in U.S.
16) Nearly one out of every 4 American admitted to the hospital was due to the affect of alcohol on his body. They were diagnosed of being heavily under alcohol influence.
17) Lot of criminal activities was on the verge of increase due to the consumption of alcohol. 4 out of every ten criminals accepted and were diagnosed to be under the influence of alcohol.
18) There is at least the loss of $ 100 million due to the health care problems in America every year; this is lost in productivity of medicines and other preventive items.
19) Among the marital problems and the spousal violence there was alcohol stated as the main cause and reason. Three out of every four problems were reported when either of the people was found under the influence of alcohol.
20) In the year 1996, the law enforcement agencies made nationwide arrests that grew upto 1,467,300. These arrests were made in the drunken driving probe.
21) NHTSA the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration calculated that nearly 17,488 people were killed due to the drunken driving influences.
22) Students of the grades 5 to 12 say that the advertisements related to alcohol and alcohol consumption are very encouraging. This was the view of nearly 56% of these students; they said these advertisements create an attraction towards alcohol.
These are just statistics many are left unreported; you just have to stand and try to avoid the use of alcohol and other drinking activities.