Alcohol Use: What Parents Need to Know

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Patient Education| 2021 Alcohol and Your Child: What Parents Need to Know Connected Content Translation: El alcohol y su hijo: lo que los padres deben saber: (Alcohol and Your Child: What Parents Need to Know) Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Alcohol and Your Child: What Parents Need to Know. Pediatric Patient Education 2021; 10.1542/peo_document003 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All AAP SitesAll PublicationsPediatric Patient Education Search Advanced Search Subjects: Adolescents and School-aged Children Topics: alcohol drinking, ethanol Between 36% and 50% of high school students drink alcohol, and 28% to 60% report binge drinking. In 2014, half of 12th graders and one in nine 8th graders reported having been drunk at least once in their life. More than 4,300 people younger than 21 years die each year as a result of underage drinking. Adolescents who start drinking before 15 years of age are at 4 times the risk of developing alcohol use disorder as those who start drinking after 20 years of age. 80% of adolescents say their parents are the biggest influence on their decision to drink or not. Alcohol is often the first drug that young people try. Since alcohol is legal for those older than 21 years and found in most American homes, it’s often easy for children to be around alcohol and its use.... © 2015 American Academy of Pediatrics. All rights reserved. You do not currently have access to this content.