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Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2004;158:702-704.

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According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Youth Risk Behavior Survey,¹ of the nearly 15 million high school students nationwide, 34% have consumed 5 or more alcoholic drinks on at least 1 occasion in the past month and 7% drank 5 or more alcoholic drinks on at least 6 occasions in the past month, which adds up to approximately 1 million high school students. Ninety-two percent of alcohol consumed by 12- to 14-year-olds is consumed by persons who drank 5 drinks or more per occasion, and 96% of alcohol consumed by 15- to 20-year-olds is consumed by persons who have had 5 or more drinks.²

Five drinks on an occasion is a dangerous level of consumption. If a 170-lb male consumed 5 drinks in an hour on an empty stomach, he would reach a blood alcohol level of 0.10%, a level that would indicate legal intoxication for . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Ralph Hingson, ScD

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