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... than $58 billion per year. (DT Levy, K Stewart, et al "Costs of Underage Drinking" {report prepared for the US Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Delinquency Prevention), Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 7/99}). * 40% of American College students have "binged" on alcohol during the past two weeks (1999 info). (NIDA, 1999 Monitoring the Future Study, College Students and Young Adults * Young adults/adolescents ages 18-25 are most likely to binge or drink heavily. 54% of the drinkers in this age group binge and about one in four are heavy drinkers! (NIDA, 1998 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse). * Teenage drivers cause about five times as many vehicle-related deaths as middle aged drivers. * In 1996, over 17,000 people died in alcohol-related car crashes in the United States. An alarming 2,315 of them were adolescents (between 15 and 20 years old). * Almost half of all motor vehicle crashes that ...