Peer Pressure
Statistics
Death!
Effects of Alcohol
Refusal Skills
100
Social pressure of members of one's peer group.
What is Peer Pressure?
100
By age 15, this percentage of teens have had at least 1 drink.
What is 35%?
100
The number of people under age 21 who have alcohol as a factor in their death (annually).
What is 4,358?
100
How much more likely people who start drinking before the age of 15 are to become alcohol dependent.
What is 4x More Likely?
100
This is a simple and polite 2-word refusal skill.
What is just say "No, Thanks!"?
200
The types of adolescent development in which peers play a prominent role.
What is Social and Emotional Development?
200
By age 18, this percentage of teens have had at least 1 drink.
What is 65%?
200
About a third of all deadly motor vehicle crashes were a result of this.
What is Driving Under the Influence?
200
The age in which the brain continues to develop.
What is the 20's?
200
This refusal skill involves creating an excuse based on your family values.
What is Blaming Your Parents?
300
The type of peer pressure that may lead to substance use.
What is Negative Peer Pressure?
300
The number of people ages 12-20 who reported that they drank alcohol beyond "just a few sips" in the past month.
What is 8.7 million?
300
This results in 1,580 deaths among people under age 21 (annually).
What is Motor Vehicle Crashes?
300
This can potentially affect the structural and functional development of the brain.
What is Alcohol?
300
This refusal skill involves recommending a different activity instead of drinking.
What is Suggesting an Alternative?
400
The majority of teens with substance abuse problems begin using this as a result of peer pressure.
What is Drugs or Alcohol?
400
The percentage (out of all alcohol consumed in the United States) consumed by people ages 12-20.
What is 11%?
400
The number of deaths among people under age 21 as a result of alcohol poisoning, falls, burning and drowning (annually).
What is 245?
400
Alcohol use can cause these types of problem in the developing brain.
What is Cognitive or Learning Problem?
400
This refusal skill involves making up a white lie to get out of drinking.
What is Making an Excuse?
500
This type of peer pressure can lead students to healthier habits.
What is Positive Peer Pressure?
500
The result of 492 deaths among people under age 21 (annually).
What is Suicide?
500
This may make the brain more prone to alcohol dependence.
What is Early Alcohol Use?
500
This refusal skill doesn't require any words at all.
What is Just Leave?
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