1 If your flask has not been used for some time, rinse with warm water to remove any residual odours. 2  DO NOT overfill your flask. Leave sufficient space in the neck to fit the stopper.  After filling, always ensure that both the outside cup and stopper are tightly closed.
The 8.4% prevalence of alcohol abuse/dependence estimated by the present study (13.1% for men and 4.1% for women) is above the average value of 6% that Galduroz et al8 (2003) found in a survey performed in 1999.
Rates of alcohol dependence/abuse declined from 2002 to 2013. In 2013, 17.3 million Americans (6.6 percent of the population) were dependent on alcohol or had problems related to their alcohol use (abuse). This is a decline from 18.1 million (or 7.7 percent) in 2002.After alcohol, marijuana has the highest rate of dependence or abuse among all drugs.urrent alcohol use by this age group declined from 28.8 to 22.7 percent between 2002 and 2013, while binge drinking declined from 19.3 to 14.2 percent and the rate of heavy drinking went from 6.2 to 3.7 percent. â .