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Young drinkers are more likely to use alcohol to relieve stress when they get older. A National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism survey found that, among adults with a high level of stress in their lives, people who began drinking at age 14 or younger drank five times more than their peers who started drinking at age 18 or older, consuming an average of six drinks per day.
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Sources for Too Many Kids Are Wasting Their Breath on Inhalants

1 ONDCP Drug Policy Information Clearinghouse, April 14, 2004. Fact Sheet: Inhalants, last referenced 5/27/2005.

2 Drug Enforcement Administration. Inhalants, last referenced 5/27/2005.

3 National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign. Inhalants-A Deadly High, last referenced 5/27/2005.

4 Monitoring the Future, December 21, 2004. Data From In-School Surveys of 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-Grade Students, last referenced 3/22/04.

5 Ibid.

6 Ibid.

7 Ibid.

8 National Inhalant Prevention Coalition. Signs of Inhalant Use, last referenced 5/27/2005.

9 National Institute on Drug Abuse, December 2004. NIDA InfoFacts: Inhalants, last referenced 5/27/2005.

 

 
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