Table 16. Alcohol use among high school students, by gender, race/ethnicity, and grade in percent
		Lifetime Alcohol Use**				Current Alcohol Use†				Episodic Heavy Drinking§				Among Drinkers, Someone Gave it to me
		Female	Male	Total		Female	Male	Total		Female	Male	Total		Female	Male	Total
Galveston*
	Race/ethnicity
	White	83.1	80.5	81.6		50.0	50.5	50.5		34.6	33.2	34.5		42.9	36.6	41.0
	Black	63.5	51.0	57.8		33.2	25.6	29.9		10.6	15.0	12.9		54.0	17.0	40.9
	Hispanic	74.1	70.3	72.4		43.2	48.8	46.3		22.3	34.3	28.4		45.4	36.9	40.1
	All other	74.6	73.3	72.6		51.5	44.6	45.8		31.8	32.4	31.8		36.4	6.3	21.5
	Grade
	9	73.3	68.3	70.8		41.9	35.2	38.2		20.9	20.7	20.7		52.9	41.6	47.6
	10	68.5	64.7	66.8		38.4	46.2	42.6		18.8	32.1	25.6		41.2	29.5	35.3
	11	79.9	69.3	74.5		48.2	40.7	44.8		29.0	28.5	29.1		43.0	34.2	35.5
	12	72.2	72.2	71.6		43.3	52.2	47.5		24.0	38.6	30.8		42.6	25.8	34.6
	2007 Total*	73.3	67.9	70.7		42.8	42.5	42.6		22.7	28.6	25.5		48.3	31.7	40.6
	2004 Total*	77.5	75.3	76.5		51.8	50.1	51.0		27.8	31.5	29.5
	2002 Total*	78.8	75.2	77.1		51.9	51.0	51.5		25.4	33.1	29.0
	2000 Total*	83.0	82.4	82.5		53.1	54.9	54.0		27.5	37.7	32.4
Texas*		79.7	80.5	80.2		45.5	49.1	47.3		26.2	33.1	29.6
United States*		74.8	73.8	74.3		42.8	43.8	43.3		23.5	27.5	25.5
*Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance survey. Galveston 2000, 2002, 2004, 2007, Texas and United States 2005.
** Had at least one drink of alcohol on ≥ 1 day during their life.
† Had at least one drink of alcohol on ≥ 1 of the 30 days preceding the survey.
§ Had ≥ 5 drinks of alcohol in a row (i.e., within a couple of hours) on ≥ 1 of the 30 days preceding the survey.
Percents may not add up to 100% due to missing values.
White = non-Hispanic white, Hispanic = any race, Black = non-Hispanic black, All other  = any other non-Hispanic
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