Because friends are very important, this temptation can become more and more of a problem as you enter your teen years.
Alcohol is the number one drug abuse problem for American youth.
Nearly a thousand high school and college students die of acute alcohol poisoning each year in the United States alone. Among youth under the age of 21, statistics show that the cost of alcohol related problems is very high. This does not take into account cigarette smoking or the use of other drugs. The good news is that most of you have been taught strategies for resisting this temptation. This year there are not enough officers to reach every fifth grade student in Montgomery County, Maryland.