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Family History of Alcoholism?
There are an estimated 26.8 million children of alcoholics in the United States,
source: ACOA

American women are 4 times more likely to die from Addiction related illness than they are from breast cancer? Brandeis University, 1993

Prison Women and Cycle of Addiction
Approximately 516,200 women on probation (72% of the total), 44,700 women in local jails (70% of the total), 49,200 women in State prisons (65% of the total), and 5,400 women in Federal prisons (59% of the total) have minor children.

Source: Greenfield, Lawrence A., and Snell, Tracy L., US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Women Offenders (Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, December 1999), p. 7, Table 17.

Underage Drinking, Landmark report and call for action by the NAS 9/03 read overview here