Alcohol : What Families Need to Know to Help Protect Young People

Written on 05/24/2022
HCCoalition Team


This Guide Can Provide important insights into why Youth and Young People Drink such as peer pressure and how they drink.

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Alcohol is the most widely used substance among teens and young adults, and it poses substantial health and safety risks. Although young people tend to drink less often than adults do, when they do drink, they frequently drink more or more intensely compared to the average adult. 3 That’s because young people consume more than 90% of their alcohol by binge drinking. 4


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