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  • Alcohol-medication interactions are common among the elderly, increasing the risk of negative health effects of alcohol use and potentially influencing the effectiveness of the medications.
  • The 2009 Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that among high school students, during the past 30 days 28% rode with a driver who had been drinking alcohol.
  • In terms of helping behavior during incidents related to alcohol abuse, research by the National Center on Addiction and Substance abuse reported that women are much more likely to engage in protective behaviors to help a person that is in trouble with alcohol than men.
  • Alcohol has the distinction of being one of the oldest addicting drugs in the history of the world; alcohol may be older than marijuana and opium. There are records of Egyptian use of alcohol and using alcohol as an intoxicant is as old as recorded history.

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