Drug and Alcohol Stats and Facts

• Alcohol is involved in 50% of all driving fatalities.
• In the United States, every 30 minutes someone is killed in an alcohol related traffic crash.
• 56% of students in grade 5 to 12 say that alcohol advertising encourages them to drink.
• The highest percentage of heavy drinkers (12.2%) is found among unemployed adults between the ages of 26 to 34.
• Four in ten criminal offenders report alcohol as a factor in violence.
• Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Fatalities invovling a drinking driver decreased from 417 in 2010 to 379 in 2011, the lowest number in more than 10 years.

Erie County Drug and Alcohol Conference 2012 Resources

Sources: Drug Rehabs.org/National Drug and Alcohol Abuse Hotline, National Institute on Drug Abuse - NIDA.