Most Americans who drink alcohol are in their teens when they take their first drink, and new research indicates that the younger they are when they take their first drink, the more prone they’ll be to binge-drinking and other dangerous alcohol-related behaviors.
A network of alcohol treatment facilities polled 1,000 Americans who drink alcohol, and asked them about when they had their first drinks, their experiences with alcohol, and how those experiences informed their drinking habits. The results are shocking.
Starting Drinking At An Early Age
Although the legal drinking age in all of the 50 states is 21, a majority of Americans (excluding those who don’t drink) have their first drink well before that. In fact, the age with the most respondents (34 percent) saying they took their first drink at that age was 16. Only nine percent had their first drink at 21, and only three percent waited until even later.
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