Question

Which of the following statements is NOT true about the consequences of alcohol?
a. Drinking alcohol increases the likelihood of engaging in risky sexual activity, such as unprotected sex.
b. Adolescents who drink alcohol are more likely to drop out of high school than their peers who don't drink.
c. Alcohol related crashes involving teenagers accounts for approximately 5,000 deaths per year in the US.
d. Students diagnosed with alcohol abuse are four times more likely to experience major depression.

Answer 1

Surprisingly, the correct response is "B." There is no significant difference in dropout rates between students who do drink underage than those who do not drink. Risky sexual activity increases, high numbers of car fatalities are experienced, and depressive episodes are rampant, but dropout rates do not seem to change.

Answer 2

It is false that adolescents who drink alcohol are more likely to drop out of high school than their peers who don't drink.

What are the consequences of alcohol abuse?

Alcohol abuse is the abuse of alcoholic drinks by excessive consumption or when underage individuals take alcohol.

The consequences of alcohol abuse include:

• decrease in ability to make rational decision
• increase in accident rates
• increase in depression

No statistical difference exists between adolescents who drink alcohol and those who do in dropping out of school.

Therefore, it is not true that adolescents who drink alcohol are more likely to drop out of high school than their peers who don't drink.

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