2.5 times the norm in absences of eight days or longer. Works at sixty-seven percent of this potential level of productivity. Alcohol One in sixteen high school seniors drink daily.
Children can become dependent on alcohol within four months, whereas adults take two to four years.
Three million teenagers are problem drinkers in America today. Alcohol is used by sixty percent of seventh-graders. Society has over-emphasized feeling good, and if someone doesn't feel good, then the only solution is substances. As adults, we take pills to get us going in the morning, we take a pill to be able to sleep, and we take a pill when the are depressed. This vicious cycle of chemical cures is paraded in front of out children on a daily basis.