Implications - drinking can cause health issues. addiction is a disease and would be treated by a health care system. Imagine all the 16+ year olds who would be flooding the system ... possible.
Beginning to drink in teen years raises alcohol risks later on: study
Joene Hendry, Reuters
June 5, 2009
Delaying the start of alcohol drinking might curb subsequent rates of alcohol-related injuries.
Interviews with a representative sampling of the U.S. adult population suggest a link between "starting to drink at an early age and not only unintentionally injuring oneself while under the influence of alcohol, but with injuring other people, said Dr. Ralph W. Hingson.
Among more than 34,600 adults, those who began drinking as teenagers, versus age 21 years and older, were more likely to report driving under the influence of alcohol and to have placed themselves in a risky situation after drinking, Hingson and Dr. Wenxing Zha, both from the U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, in Bethesda, Md., report in the journal Pediatrics.
Drinking onset at 16 and younger, versus 21 and older, appears to double the likelihood of alcohol-related driving or unintentional injuries, as well as the risk for alcohol dependence or abuse, the investigators report.
The study participants were about 45 years old on average in 2001-2002, when they were asked about the age at which they began drinking alcohol.
A second interview between 2004 and 2005, asked participants about their subsequent drinking habits and whether or not they had engaged in risky behaviours such as driving, swimming, and operating machinery, while under the influence of alcohol since their first interview.
Analyses of the interview findings revealed an association between younger age at drinking onset and increased risk for later alcohol dependence or abuse, driving while under the influence of alcohol, and alcohol-related injuries.
The risk for unintentional injuries to themselves and others among those who began drinking as teenagers did not change when the investigators accounted for other injury risk factors and sociodemographic characteristics associated with alcohol use.
"Young people were disproportionately likely to be involved in injuries due to alcohol abuse," Hingson said.
He and Zha note that one-third of unintentional injuries while under the influence of alcohol occurred among 25-year-old respondents, even though this age group represented a small proportion (7%) of the study population.
To reduce unintentional alcohol-related injuries, Hingson and Zha call for studies to examine ways to delay or reduce adolescent drinking.
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Sunday, July 12, 2009
Friday, January 2, 2009
The English and their Alcohol
Amazing! I thought fraternity parties were drunkfests. I always believed football games led to freeflowing alcohol .... NO. In England, they do it much better and make the rest of us look like we haven't even begun.
Boozy Britain's bloody New Year: A 999 call every seven seconds in alcohol-induced mayhem
By Neil Sears
January 2, 2009
Violence scarred celebrations and led to a bloody New Year across the country as emergency services endured a chaotic end to 2008.
Ambulance control centres reported receiving 999 calls as often as once every seven seconds - the second highest volume of calls since the Millennium - as binge drinkers turned nasty in the freezing temperatures.
Many of the calls related either to alcohol-fuelled assaults or excessive drunkenness.
Booze contributed to time-wasting calls to 999 operators too, with one man calling to ask if New York was in America, and what time it was there.
Elsewhere, while large numbers were ferried to hospitals, in some areas injuries were treated by paramedics in 'booze buses' to leave ambulances free for more serious emergencies.
In Essex, so many drunk people were arrested that all 200 of the constabulary's cells were filled, and overflow revellers had to be shipped to neighbouring Kent to be held for the night.
A huge brawl at a social club in Loughton, Essex, meant 600 rowdy revellers had to be dispersed, with two arrested for attempted murder after a 47-year-old man was stabbed in the eye and back.
In Wales, a 999 call led to tragedy when an ambulance speeding its way to an emergency ran over and killed reveller Jason Hawkes, 23, as he stood in the road outside a pub in Beddau-near Cardiff.
In one of the most disturbing incidents an ambulance was wrecked by callous thugs while parked outside the home of a sick baby boy in Tilehurst, Reading.
[to read the rest of the article, click on the title link]
UK
Boozy Britain's bloody New Year: A 999 call every seven seconds in alcohol-induced mayhem
By Neil Sears
January 2, 2009
Violence scarred celebrations and led to a bloody New Year across the country as emergency services endured a chaotic end to 2008.
Ambulance control centres reported receiving 999 calls as often as once every seven seconds - the second highest volume of calls since the Millennium - as binge drinkers turned nasty in the freezing temperatures.
Many of the calls related either to alcohol-fuelled assaults or excessive drunkenness.
Booze contributed to time-wasting calls to 999 operators too, with one man calling to ask if New York was in America, and what time it was there.
Elsewhere, while large numbers were ferried to hospitals, in some areas injuries were treated by paramedics in 'booze buses' to leave ambulances free for more serious emergencies.
In Essex, so many drunk people were arrested that all 200 of the constabulary's cells were filled, and overflow revellers had to be shipped to neighbouring Kent to be held for the night.
A huge brawl at a social club in Loughton, Essex, meant 600 rowdy revellers had to be dispersed, with two arrested for attempted murder after a 47-year-old man was stabbed in the eye and back.
In Wales, a 999 call led to tragedy when an ambulance speeding its way to an emergency ran over and killed reveller Jason Hawkes, 23, as he stood in the road outside a pub in Beddau-near Cardiff.
In one of the most disturbing incidents an ambulance was wrecked by callous thugs while parked outside the home of a sick baby boy in Tilehurst, Reading.
[to read the rest of the article, click on the title link]
UK
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Swedish Women Turn to Alcohol
Sharp rise in alcoholism among Swedish women: report
Aug 30, 2008
Alcoholism among women in Sweden rose by 50 percent between 2003 and 2007 as beer, wine and spirits have become more accessible in the country long known for its restrictive alcohol policy, a report on Saturday said.
"The number of female alcoholics has risen from 65,000 to about 100,000 and the number of male alcoholics has risen from about 135,000 to about 165,000. One important reason is that it has become easier and cheaper to buy alcohol," a report written by the head of the Swedish National Institute of Public Health's alcohol and drug division showed.
Sweden, a country of nine million inhabitants, has an alcohol distribution monopoly, meaning that Swedes can only buy beer, wine and liquor at state-run outlets called Systembolaget. Only Systembolaget and wholesalers authorised by the state may import such drinks.
Sweden maintains that the monopoly, and high taxes on alcohol, are needed to protect public health.
But alcohol has nonetheless become more accessible in recent years.
"Reduced alcohol taxes, private imports from abroad and across the internet, longer opening hours at Systembolaget and an increase in the number of restaurants granted liquor licenses" have all contributed to the rise in alcoholism, said Sven Andreasson, the author of the report published in Sweden's newspaper of reference Dagens Nyheter.
Andreasson noted that while overall alcohol consumption in Sweden had remained stable in recent years, the number of alcohol poisonings, alcohol-related violence and drink driving cases were on the rise.
The numbers he presented in the report were "in line with" reports from the health sector which indicated an increase in the number of people seeking care for alcohol-related problems, he said.
Sweden
alcoholism
Aug 30, 2008
Alcoholism among women in Sweden rose by 50 percent between 2003 and 2007 as beer, wine and spirits have become more accessible in the country long known for its restrictive alcohol policy, a report on Saturday said.
"The number of female alcoholics has risen from 65,000 to about 100,000 and the number of male alcoholics has risen from about 135,000 to about 165,000. One important reason is that it has become easier and cheaper to buy alcohol," a report written by the head of the Swedish National Institute of Public Health's alcohol and drug division showed.
Sweden, a country of nine million inhabitants, has an alcohol distribution monopoly, meaning that Swedes can only buy beer, wine and liquor at state-run outlets called Systembolaget. Only Systembolaget and wholesalers authorised by the state may import such drinks.
Sweden maintains that the monopoly, and high taxes on alcohol, are needed to protect public health.
But alcohol has nonetheless become more accessible in recent years.
"Reduced alcohol taxes, private imports from abroad and across the internet, longer opening hours at Systembolaget and an increase in the number of restaurants granted liquor licenses" have all contributed to the rise in alcoholism, said Sven Andreasson, the author of the report published in Sweden's newspaper of reference Dagens Nyheter.
Andreasson noted that while overall alcohol consumption in Sweden had remained stable in recent years, the number of alcohol poisonings, alcohol-related violence and drink driving cases were on the rise.
The numbers he presented in the report were "in line with" reports from the health sector which indicated an increase in the number of people seeking care for alcohol-related problems, he said.
Sweden
alcoholism
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