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What is the recommended amount of alcohol consumption per day for a healthy adult male?
2 drinks of less per day
What is the recommended amount of alcohol consumption for a healthy female?
1 drink per day
What is considered "heavy drinking" for males?
5 or more drinks on any given day or 15 or more drinks per week
What is considered "heavy drinking" for females?
4 of more drinks any give day or 8 or more drinks per week
What is binge drinking?
too much, too fast
When a woman has 4 or more drinks—or a man has 5 or more—in about 2 hours
15.5
What is the average age people experiment with drugs?
13 is the average age children experiment with drugs.
What are causes of addiction?
Genes, environment (home life, peer influences),mental health disorder
Does age matter when it comes to marijuana usage?
The younger the boys started smoking pot (specifically before age 15), the more likely they were to develop a drug problem by their late 20s. Just a year or two made all the difference – when pot use started after 15, the risk of future drug abuse was much lower.
What percentage of Americans over 12 battled a substance use disorder in the past year?
48.5 million (16.7%) Americans (aged 12 and older) battled a substance use disorder in the past year