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Our new set of ProQuest research lesson plans and activities address the following New York State Standards:

• English Language Arts: Standard 1 -- Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding. As listeners and readers, students will collect data, facts, and ideas; discover relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and use knowledge generated from oral, written, and electronically produced texts. As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language to acquire, interpret, apply, and transmit information.
  
  
• HPHE: Possess basic knowledge and skills which support positive health choices and behaviors. Technology: 4. Technological systems are designed to achieve specific results and produce outputs, such as products, structures, services, energy, or other systems.

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Drinking Alcohol Responsibly

April is Alcohol Awareness Month. Today's problems with alcohol abuse include college students who binge drink at local bars, pregnant women who drink and put their babies at risk for fetal alcohol syndrome, professionals who drink after a long day of work; and senior citizens who drink out of loneliness.

The full extent of the destructive and pervasive manifestations of alcohol abuse and alcoholism are not typically realized until various alcoholism statistics and alcohol abuse statistics are explicitly stated.

As a consequence, the following sample of alcohol abuse statistics and alcoholism statistics and facts, established via an assortment of online surveys and research studies, will be listed below:

• The World Health Organization estimates that about 76 million people throughout the world suffer from alcohol-related disorders.
  
  
• According to recent studies, it has been discovered that approximately 53% of adults in the United States have reported that one or more of their close relatives has a drinking problem.
  
  
• Alcohol dependence and alcohol abuse cost the United States an estimated $220 billion in 2005. This dollar amount was more than the cost associated with obesity ($133 billion) or with cancer ($196 billion).
  
  
• The overwhelming majority of youth (74% of 8-17 year-olds; 74% of 8-12 year-olds; 74% of 13-17 year-olds) cite their parents as the primary influence in their decisions about whether they drink alcohol or not.
  
  
• The 25.9% of underage drinkers in the United States who are alcohol abusers and alcohol dependent drink 47.3% of the alcohol that is consumed by all underage drinkers.
  
  
• Problem drinkers are mostly found in young adults between the ages of 18 and 29. Conversely, the age group with the fewest alcohol problems is adults who are 65 years old or older.
  
  
• The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that there were 17,000 alcohol-related traffic fatalities in each of the last three years.
  
  
• In the United States, research has demonstrated that continued alcohol abuse is one of the major risk factors for violence in intimate relationships.
  
  
• Over all, about three-quarters of all prisoners in 1997 were involved in alcohol or drug abuse in some way in the time leading up to their current offense.
  
  
• A full 50% of U.S. homicides are alcohol related.

Assign students to write a report of at least 150 words (or a presentation of at least seven slides) that cites at least three resources. Students should address the following essential questions for critical thinking (you may add or substitute others):

• What do you think is the greatest reason for alcohol abuse and why?
  
  
• How can you recognize that you or a family member are abusing alcohol?
  
  
• What are some successful programs that help people avoid problem drinking?
  
  
• What are some successful programs that help alcoholics?

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