Alcohol and Violence
Alcohol and Violence
Taken from http://www.marininstitute.org/alcohol_policy/violence.htm
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• Alcohol availability is closely related to violent assaults. Communities and neighborhoods that have more bars and liquor stores per capita experience more assaults. 1
• Alcohol use is frequently associated with violence between intimate partners. Two-thirds of victims of intimate partner violence reported that alcohol was involved in the incident. 2
• In one study of interpersonal violence, men had been drinking in an estimated 45 percent of cases and women had been drinking in 20 percent of cases. 3
• Women whose partners abused alcohol were 3.6 times more likely than other women to be assaulted by their partners. 4
• In 1997, 40 percent of convicted rape and sexual assault offenders said that they were drinking at the time of their crime. 5
• In 2002, more than 70,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 were victims of alcohol-related sexual assault in the U.S. 6
• In those violent incidents recorded by the police in which alcohol was a factor, about nine percent of the offenders and nearly 14 percent of the victims were under age 21. 7
• Twenty-eight percent of suicides by children ages nine to 15 were attributable to alcohol. 8
• An estimated 480,000 children are mistreated each year by a caretaker with alcohol problems. 9
If you notice that a relative seems to have developed a drinking or drug problem call Narconon for help. 877-413-3073
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