ALCOHOL AND VIOLENCE
- In 2001, about 10.1 million persons age 12 to 20 years
reported current alcohol use, i.e., were underage drinkers.
Nearly 6.8 million (19%) were binge drinkers and 2.1 million
(6%) were heavy drinkers.
- The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA), Office of Applied Studies (OAS) 2002
- Almost 14 million adult Americans abuse alcohol.
- Connecticut Clearinghouse, The Relationship Between Parental
Alcohol or other Drug Problems and Child Maltreatment, April
1999
- There is an association between alcohol consumption and
violent or aggressive behavior: alcohol may promote aggressiveness
and victimization may lead to excessive alcohol consumption.
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, October
1997
- Published studies suggest that as many as 86% of homicide
offenders, 37% of assault offenders, 60% of sexual offenders,
up to 57% of men and 27% of women involved in marital violence,
and 13% of child abusers were drinking at the time of the
offense.
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, October
1997
- Among spousal abuse victims, 75% of the incidents were
reported to have involved an offender who had been drinking.
By contrast, an estimated 31% of stranger victimizations
in which the victim could determine the absence or the presence
of alcohol were perceived to be alcohol-related.
- Dept of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2002
- 35% of violent victimizations involve the use of alcohol.
- US Dept of Justice, 2002
- Each year, an average of nearly 3 million victims of
violence perceived the use of alcohol by their attacker.
- Dept of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2002
- In 1996, Alcohol use at the time of the offense was commonly
found among those convicted of public-order crimes, a type
of offense most highly represented among those on probation
and in jail. Among violent offenders, 41% of probationers,
41% of those in local jails, 38% of those in State prisons,
and 20% of those in Federal prisons were estimated to have
been drinking when they committed the crime for which they
were convicted
- Dept of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2002
- In 1999, a Johns Hopkins University study found that
almost one-third of people who are murdered or die of non-traffic
related injuries were legally drunk at the time of death.
- Drug strategies: Millennium Hangover: Keeping score on
alcohol, 2002
- In many domestic violence cases, both the assailant and
the victim have been drinking. Half of alcoholic women
have been victims of domestic violence.
- Drug strategies: Millennium Hangover: Keeping score on
alcohol, 2002
- Rates of male to female intimate violence are two to
four times higher among men with alcohol problems than among
men without alcohol problems. Female to male intimate violence
is about two times more frequent in relationships where
men have alcohol problems than in other relationships.
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: Journal
of Substance Abuse Caetano et al 2000
- In a study by UCLA, in violent acts involving adolescents,
drugs and/or alcohol were frequently used by both the assailant
(58% of the males and 55% of the females) and the victim
(56% for the males and 66% for the females).
- Arch Pediatrics Adolescent Med 2002 Aug; 156(8): 831-5
- State child welfare records indicate that substance abuse
is one of the top two problems exhibited by families in
81% of the reported child abuse cases.
- Connecticut Clearinghouse, The Relationship Between Parental
Alcohol or other Drug Problems and Child Maltreatment, April
1999
- Alcohol abuse frequently plays a role in child abuse
and neglect cases. Alcohol and other drug abuse by a parent
or guardian is involved in 7 out of 10 cases of child abuse
and neglect; 90 percent of child welfare professionals cite
alcohol as the drug of choice in these cases.
- Drug strategies: Millennium Hangover: Keeping score on
alcohol, 2002
- According to a 1993 study conducted by the Research Institute
on Addictions, nearly nine in ten alcoholic women were physically
or sexually abused as children.
- Drug strategies: Millennium Hangover 2002
- About 20% of suicide victims are alcoholic.
- National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 1993
- In 2000, approximately 3 million youths were at risk
for suicide during the past year. Youths who reported past
year alcohol use were twice as likely to attempt suicide.
- SAMSHA, NHSDA Report, July 2002
- Alcohol manufacturers spend more than $1 billion each
year advertising their products.
- Drug strategies: Millennium Hangover: Keeping score
on alcohol, 2002
- The beer industry spends $700 million per year on advertising—nearly
three times the 1999 budget for the National Institute on
Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
- Drug strategies: Millennium Hangover: Keeping score on
alcohol, 2002
- Billboard advertising is also a popular medium for promoting
alcohol, especially in minority neighborhoods. In San Francisco,
African American neighborhoods have more than three times
as many alcohol billboards per capita as white neighborhoods,
and Latino neighborhoods have more than twice as many.
- Drug strategies: Millennium Hangover: Keeping score on
alcohol, 2002
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