Teenage Drinking
Who influences the alcohol use and misuse of British teenagers? Although the health risks of Heavy drinking is known and understood, the social habit continues to be accepted as a cultural norm. Is it? Surprising then, that the young people are beginning to drink at school ages. It is illegal to purchase An alcoholic drink under the age of 18, it would appear through the current research that teenage drinking A recent Scottish survey by McKegney N et al (1996), found that at least 50% of teenagers by the age of 14 had been drunk one or more occasion. Another National study by McMiller and Plant (1996) showed that 77.9% of 15-16 year olds have experienced intoxication. 50.3% of these had consumed at least five units of alcohol consecutively within the last 30 days. The evidence is readily available to inform us of the increasing problem of adolescence alcohol misuse and the damaging consequences of this. How then should children be educated so that alcohol misuse can be prevented and sensible use of alcohol can be advised. May.C (1993), suggests that fact giving information to target populations is the most commonly used approach in health education.
higher incidence of adolescence alcohol abuse and misuse. (Foxcroft and Lowe,1991). Teenagers may
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