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Facts

$223.5 Billion PER YEAR (The economic cost of excessive drinking)(Source: Center for Disease Control)

79,000 Deaths PER YEAR (The cost in lives of excessive drinking) (Source: America Journal of Preventative Medicine)

190,000 Emergency Room Visits PER YEAR (For alcohol related injuries by individuals under age 21) (Source: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)

$74 Billion PER YEAR (The cost to businesses in lost productivity due to excessive drinking) (Source: American Journal of Preventative Medicine)

50.2% Increase in DUI Convictions in Lyon County (Percentage is representative of the average of DUI convictions during the 10 years prior to Kuttawa selling alcohol as compared to the average DUI convictions during the 10 years following) (Source: West Kentucky Star)

8,000 Children PER DAY Drink Alcohol for First Time (Children between the ages of 12 & 17) (Source: Leadership To Keep Children Alcohol Free Foundation)

41.2% of 10th-Graders Have Been Drunk (Source: Leadership To Keep Children Alcohol Free Foundation)

Alcohol is #1 (Alcohol is the number one drug of choice among America’s youth) (86% of US youth consume alcohol before their 21^st birthday) (Source: KY League on Alcohol and Gambling)

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Mothers Against Drunk Driving

Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) was founded in 1980 to reduce traffic fatalities caused by drunk drivers. However, it appears that prohibitionist beliefs in the organization have gained influence and MADD has now largely become anti-alcohol rather than anti-drunk-driving. For more, visit Mothers Against Drunk Driving: A Crash Course in MADD.

Drug Abuse Resistance Education

The Drug Abuse Resistance Education program is used in about 75-80% of the school districts in the United States and in dozens of other countries around the world. Each year tens of millions of students are taught the program, but is it effective in reducing alcohol and drug use? For more, visit Drug Abuse Resistance Education.

Center for Science in the Public Interest

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) demonstrates a continuing pattern of presenting alarming but erroneous and misleading statistics to promote its agenda. For more, visit The Center for Science in the Public Interest: Not Science and Not in the Public Interest.

Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse

The Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) has a long history of presenting factually erroneous and highly inflated statistics as justifications for “national mobilizations” and other drives against alcohol use. For more, visitCenter for Addiction and Substance Abuse: A Center for Alcohol Statistics Abuse?

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention

The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), a federal agency, has long been guilty of illegally misappropriating taxpayer money for lobbying, of censoring citizens with whom it disagrees, of self-servingly distorting statistics, and of using its power to abuse innocent Americans. For more, visit Center for Substance Abuse Prevention: What You Don’t Know.

Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth

The Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) works to severely restrict, if not censor, all beer, wine and spirits advertising on TV, in magazines, and elsewhere. For more, visit CAMY: Its Objectives and Methods.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has created a nation-wide network of temperance-oriented groups and individuals and has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into supporting the anti-alcohol agenda and activties of that network. For more, visit Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Financier of Temperance.

The American Medical Association (AMA)

Since before National Prohibition was imposed in the U.S. in 1920, the American Medical Association (AMA) has promoted abstinence from all alcohol beverages. For more, visit Abstinence Motivated Agenda.

The Marin Institute: A Temperance-Oriented Activist Organization

The Marin Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems is a massively endowed temperance-oriented organization that attempts to organize community action against those who produce, advertise, distribute or sell alcoholic beverages. For more, visit The Marin Institute: An Anti-alcohol ActivistOrganization.