The correlation between drinking alcohol and illicit drug use is: a) negative—drinkers are less likely to use illicit drugs than nondrinkers b) random—drinkers are equally as likely to use illicit drugs as nondrinkers c) positive—drinkers are more likely to use illicit drugs than nondrinkers d) unknown and unknowable with any available data

The correct answer is c) positive- drinkers are more likely to use illicit drugs than nondrinkers.

Explanation:

Many surveys have been conducted by the CASA, which is National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia university and by National College Risk Behavior survey, also by Core Alcohol and Drug survey, and from all these surveys one thing that has come out as common is that the use of illicit drugs such as Tobacco , LSD, Marijuana is more common among those who are drinkers or you can binge drinkers than the ones who don't drink.

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