Adult Children of Alcoholics ACOA and Family Roles
The young adult subtype is the most prevalent subtype, making up31.5% of people who are alcohol dependent. Theaverage age of dependent young adultsis almost 25 years old, and they first became dependent at an average age of around 20 years old. They tend to drink less frequently than people of other types (an average of 143 days a year). However, most of their drinking is binge drinking –they drink 5