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Youth and Alcohol
Many do not consider alcohol a drug but it is. Alcohol is a sedative/hypnotic because it depresses the central nervous system (the workings of the spine and brain). It lowers inhibitions, making you feel relaxed and more prone to taking chances you wouldn't otherwise take. Approximately seventy five percent of Albertans over the age of fifteen drink alcohol, at lease to some extent.
Motor vehicle crashes, snowmobile accidents, fire injuries, and falls all frequently involve alcohol or other drug use. Studies have found that thirty five percent of fatally injured vehicle drivers were legally impaired, among 727 people who died in fires, the average blood alcohol level was .19 percent, and people injured in walls ere sixty times more likely to have a blood alcohol content over .1 percent.
Over the years there has been more and more cases of minors drinking. Young people are beginning to consume alcohol around the age of thirteen...