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  • A recent government conducted medical study indicates that people with a variant of the DRD2 gene (a gene associated with dopamine function in the brain) may be more prone to receive pleasure from drinking; since this gen merely relates to the pleasure associated with drinking, this research cannot conclude that DRD2 causes alcohol dependence.
  • Among high school seniors, whites are more likely and blacks least likely to drink heavily.
  • Nearly two-thirds of children 15 and younger who died in alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes were riding with the drinking driver, 20% of which were properly restrained at the time of the crash, and that restraint use decreased as the driver's blood alcohol concentration increased.
  • Even if not mentally retarded, children born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome may have problems with learning, memory, attention, speech, and hearing, as well as severe behavioral problems.

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