ceding month. Five percent reported that they drank daily, and 39 percent reported that they had binged on alcohol (or had five or more drinks in succession) within the previous two weeks (Marks 264). A report by the U.S. Surgeon General shows an even higher incidence reported--among high school seniors in 1990, 90 percent had used alcohol at last once; 51 percent of junior and senior high school students had used alcohol at least once within the previous year; and among the 20.7 million 7th through 12th graders in 1990, more than half had consumed alcohol at least once. Eight million of these students drank weekly, and almost one-half million binged each week. More than five million had binged at some point in their lives, and three million had
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