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Sobering Statistics Drink Responsibly According to the Core Institute, an organization that surveys college-drinking practices, 300,000 of today's college students will eventually die of alcohol-related causes such as drunk driving accidents, cirrhosis of the liver, various cancers and heart disease. One night of heavy drinking can impair your ability to think abstractly for up to 30 days, limiting your ability to relate textbook reading to what your professor says, or to think through a football play. Almost one-third of college students admit to having missed at least one class because of their alcohol or drug use, and nearly one-quarter of students report bombing a test or project because of the aftereffects of drinking or doing drugs. 159,000 of today's first-year college students will drop out of school next year for alcohol- or other drug related reasons. The average student spends about $900 on alcohol each year. Do you want to know how much cash the average student drops on his or her books? About $450. Alcohol statistics for the US regarding automobile crashes have shown that the percentage of deaths attributable to alcohol impaired drivers has steadily declined over the past two decades. That decline, however, has leveled off for the last several years and has even increased slightly. Phoenix House In 2003, 40% of all traffic fatalities were alcohol-related fatalities, whereas 60% of fatalities were non-alcohol related. That's a major improvement over the figures from 1982, and represents a 34% decrease in alcohol-related fatalities. Some people will find these alcohol statistics to be good news-the alcohol beverage industry in particular-while others will find them sobering, if not troubling. Indeed, that 40% still represents over 17,000 of our fellow citizens killed. To put that in perspective, that's over four times the number of people killed in the World Trade Center tragedy of September 11, 2001 . Put another way, that's roughly equivalent to the loss of life from over 42 jumbo jets crashing every year. Kero Corporation  |
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