Young people and alcohol

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The consumption of alcoholic beverages has been steadily decreasing in France for several years, but an alarming new form of alcohol abuse has occurred among young people. The 'binge drinking' consists of heavy consumption of alcohol with the primary intention of becoming intoxicated in a short period of time. It concerns mainly teens who are between 12 and 16 years old. This pattern of consumption is increasing rapidly among young people, particularly in the United Kingdom and Ireland where it is considered as a major public health problem. The teens clearly seek the drunkenness and don't even try to hide it, they get drunk now in the street. In France, 16% of the 13-year-old and 41% of the 15-year-old people have already been drunk, and 26% of the 17-year-old people claimed they have been drunk at least three times in the last twelve months. Unfortunately, this phenomenon is becoming a major society issue.

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[...] It concerns mainly teens who are between 12 and 16 years old. This pattern of consumption is increasing rapidly among young people, particularly in the United Kingdom and Ireland where it is considered as a major public health problem. The teens clearly seek the drunkenness and don't even try to hide it: they get drunk now in the street. In France of the 13-year-old and 41% of the 15-year-old people have already been drunk, and 26% of the 17-year-old people claimed they have been drunk at least three times in the last twelve months. [...]

[...] In addition, it prohibits the sale and distribution of alcohol to minors. However, producers of alcohol continue to broadcast their Internet advertising and the sale of alcohol to minors in bars and supermarkets and always very important. A control must be established to prevent the sale of alcohol to consumers more and more young people. Finally, a limitation of packages to a high consumption of alcohol at a preferential rate should be performed. In this framework, an amendment to Roselyne Bachelot, to ban open bars just adopted. [...]

[...] The heavy consumption of alcohol leads to a lot of health problems like cancers, mental, cardiovascular, respiratory and digestive disorders, or poisoning. The last consequence we ought to talk about is the addiction. Indeed, among alcoholics there are more and more teenagers. Imagine a AAA meeting where half of the participants are under 18! This may happen soon if young people still go on this way. Dépendances III) Solutions The need to screen students for alcohol use and misuse before they commit alcohol-related infractions is obvious. It's why alcohol preventions at school is the most important thing. [...]

[...] Lot of young people finish their parties at the hospital because they had ethyl coma. II) Consequences Between 2004 and 2007, emergency hospitalisations for drunkenness concerning teens under 15 increased by 50% in France. Most of the time, they are admitted for ethyl coma. But sometimes, they are admitted after vehicle crashes of fatal accidents in which the driver is between 18 and 24 years are accidents in which one of these young drivers had a positive blood alcohol level. [...]

[...] Several concepts encourage people to drink, like “open (during a certain period alcohol is completely free so everybody drinks). Nowadays, this concept is forbidden by the law but there are still bars which do it. Some also practice “happy hours”. It's a little like open bar but instead of distribute alcohol free the price is reduce during a period, often it's half price . Sellers don't respect enough the law, indeed the law says that we don't have the right to sell alcohol to people who are under 16 for beer and wine, and under 18 for alcohol and spirits whereas we can see that young people have easy access to alcohol. [...]