...include the dropouts and that is where the prevalent drug abuse is. Dr. GOODWIN. Right. Senator BUMPERS. But that is really not the point I was driving at....God. Dr. GOODWIN. It is nowhere as dramatic as the illicit drug decrease. The decrease in abusive drinking by high school seniors is only about 10 percent...

...found that 76* of college students said they had had a drink or more In the past 30 days and 42% said they had had five or more drinks In a row in the past two weeks. Only 16X of the students surveyed had used marijuana in the past month and less than 3%...

...include the dropouts and that is where the prevalent drug abuse is. Dr. GOODWIN. Right. Senator BUMPERS. But that is really not the point I was driving at....God. Dr. GOODWIN. It is nowhere as dramatic as the illicit drug decrease. The decrease in abusive drinking by high school seniors is only about 10 percent...

...sun-ey of high school seniors showed that 60 percent had used alcohol within the past month, and a third had five or more drinks in a row in the past 2 weeks. As with sexual activity, the trend is toward earlier initiation of alcohol and drug use. One of three...

...release of December 20, 1997. Table BEH2 1 Heavy drinking: Percentage of students who reported having five or more drinks in a row in the past 2 weeks by grade, gender, race, and Hispanic origin, selected years 1 980-97 Characteristic 1980 1985 1990...

...origin, selected years 1980-97 87 Table BEH2 Heavy drinking: Percentage of students who reported having five or more drinks in a row in the past 2 weeks by grade, gender, race, and Hispanic origin, selected years 1980-97 88 Table BEH3 Illicit drug use:...

...graders, and 21 percent of 8* graders. Roughly half of those percentages say that they drank heavily (five or more drinks in a row) in the past 2 weeks. Several activities related to prevention of underage drinking already are underway at NIAAA. Approximately...

...graders, and 21 percent of 8th graders. Roughly half of those percentages say that they drank heavily five or more drinks in a row in the past 2 weeks. The NESARC data show that most cases of addiction, not only to alcohol, but also to other drugs of...

...attending 2-year colleges and universities, and used a slightly different measure of hinge drinking (five or more drinks in a row in the past 2 weeks for hoth men and women) and thus cannot necessarily he generalized to the 4-year undergraduate population...

...by the time adolescents reach 12th grade, 63.9% reported having been drunk and 29.7% reported having five or more drinks in a row in the past 2 weeks [6]. Furthermore, fewer than half of those surveyed (43.6%) perceive having five or more drinks once...