WASTED - Franklin (MA) High School

W.A.S.T.E.D.When Alcohol Starts To

Endanger Decisions

Each drink has the same amount of alcohol in it…

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•69% of Franklin High School students have

consumed alcohol in their lifetime

•48% have consumed alcohol in the past 30 days

• Approximately 6% of Franklin High students

have consumed alcohol on

school property in the past 30

days

•29% of FHS students have participated in heavy drinking in the

past 30 days (more than 5 drinks in a row)

• 4 out of 10 middle and high school students who consumed alcohol in

the past year have a serious problem with drinking

• Sexual assault and rape are more common among these people

• Every day an average of 11,318 teens try alcohol for the first time

• On a typical weekend in the United States, 1 teenager per hour dies in a

car crash• Over 45% of these crashes involve

alcohol

A DRUNK DRIVING CONVICTION CAN COST UP TO $4,717

Cost to tow your car…$50Car storage fee per day…30

Magistrate’s night time bail fee…25Defense attorney’s fee…2,500

Minimum fee…500Victim’s witness fee…75

Surcharge for the Fund for Head Injury Treatment Services…100

License reinstatement fee…300

Probable additional costs:Alcohol Education Program…527

Court costs…250Probation fee…360

• Teens who have parents talk to them about the

dangers of drinking alcohol are far less likely

to drink than those whose

parents do not discuss the issue

with them.

•27% of FHS students have been in a car driven by someone who had been drinking in the past 30

days

• 19% of FHS students have driven a car

after they had been drinking in the past 30

days

• Some studies say that children of alcoholic parents have a 50% higher risk of developing alcohol problems

• Alcoholics are 6 times more likely than non alcoholics to report family

history of alcoholism• Over 6.6 million kids under 18 live in

a house with at least one alcoholic parent