National surveys indicate that an estimated 92% of U.S. adults who drink alcohol excessively report binge drinking in the past 30 days.
Doctors argue whether the withdrawal syndrome leaves individuals who take sleeping medication worse than they would be without the drug, but evidence suggests that it often does.
The number of past-year initiates of Ecstasy in 2009 aged 12 or older was over 1 million, and in 2010 was 937,000. Both years showed significant increases from 2005 (615,000).
Spending by the alcohol industry for advertisements concerning alcohol on T.V. grew by 22% in 2002, to over than $990 million.