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From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News:
Almost 40 percent of 12- to 20-year-olds in Wisconsin reported drinking alcohol within the past month, the highest rate in the nation, according to a report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
The state with the lowest rate of past-month underage drinking was Utah, where 21.3 percent of adolescent respondents to the 2004-05 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health said they imbibed.
Other states with high current underage-drinking rates were Connecticut, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
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Posted on March 5, 2007 10:45 PM
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