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"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow."
-Mary Anne Radmacher




  • 6 million women in the United States abuse or are dependent on alcohol.
  • Approximately one-third of all girls had their first alcoholic drink before entering high school.
  • Nearly half of high school girls drink alcohol and more than one in four binge drink.
  • Teenage girls who are heavy drinkers are five times more likely to have sex—a third less likely to use protections—than girls who don’t drink.
  • Frequent binge drinking in women’s colleges increased by 124 percent between 1993 and 2001.
  • Alcohol is involved in as many as 73 percent of all rapes and up to 70 percent of all incidents of domestic violence.
  • Women who drink get drunk faster, become addicted more easily, and develop alcohol-related diseases more readily than men who drink.

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