Youth drinking linked to alcoholism: Kids who drink alcohol before age 15 are four times more likely to become alcoholics as those who don’t. #HarvardHealth pic.twitter.com/sHlrBtzpuB
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Youth drinking linked to alcoholism: Kids who drink alcohol before age 15 are four times more likely to become alcoholics as those who don’t. #HarvardHealth pic.twitter.com/sHlrBtzpuB
— Harvard Health (@HarvardHealth) November 23, 2023
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My freedom from this mad merry-go-round only arrived when I understood the three C’s: ‘didn’t cause it, can’t control it, can’t cure it’
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I've been desperate for some evidence-based messaging that really works to keep kids sober until they are old enough to responsibly forge their own relationships with alcohol. The American Academy of Pediatrics just provided it.
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I’m a pediatrician, and when I see adolescents in my clinic, I ask them if they are drinking alcohol (among other risky activities). Then I counsel them if they answer in the affirmative. I want young people to be safe.
But doctors lack the evidence base — we don’t have enough studies — to know how much of a difference this makes.
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There is evidence that adolescents benefit from waiting even a few years before they start consuming alcohol.
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Giving youngsters too many takeaways is also criticised as a health risk by the researchers.
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Penn State allowed "sadistic" rituals and failed to protect its students, a blistering report finds.
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Iceland used to have a big teenage drinking, smoking and drug problem. Now it doesn't.
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Teenagers pick up cues about drinking from you and your family. Here's how you can help them develop a healthier relationship with alcohol.
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Drinking rates among Australian teenagers have halved from 56 per cent to just 28 per cent in a decade, a new health study reveals.
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The way some white professionals raise their children is exacerbating an alcohol problem on U.S. college campuses.
Are we moving to extremes with our children? More parents practicing extreme protectiveness, push toward extreme success for their children, extreme facilities....? -Lon
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Charlotte, 13, has no interest in drinking. But her mum Emma knows this might change, and tries to be a good role model.
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Parents who give kids sips of alcohol may be setting them on path to drinking more when older.
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'Neknomination' challenges reportedly responsible for deaths in Britain. Is the U.S. next?
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WOMEN who drink even a couple of glasses of wine a week during pregnancy are risking a two-point drop in their child's IQ, a study suggests.
The research is some of the strongest evidence yet in the furious debate that has seen mothers-to-be bombarded with contradictory advice on drinking.
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Senior secondary school girls are now bigger binge drinkers than their male counterparts, according to a health report into the country's drinking habits.
With the bigger boozing culture, females are also doing themselves more harm and risking their health.
The hard-hitting report into the female drinking culture was released at an alcohol harm conference in Auckland today.
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The nation's first comprehensive study of the impact of excessive drinking on unborn Aboriginal children in Western Australia's Kimberley region has found that half of all babies were born with intellectual disabilities from foetal alcohol spectrum...
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Binge drinking traps brains in adolescence, Brisbane research shows...
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A mother has blamed her teenage son's secret energy drink habit for a breakdown in his mental health.
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AUSTRALIANS are swilling a staggering 100 litres of soft drink a head each year - prompting calls for the fizz to be banned from home fridges.
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Central nervous system problems occurred with 44 percent of the children of drinking mothers, compared with 14 percent of other children
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A 19-year-old backpacker suffered permanent visual impairment after drinking a cocktail containing methanol in Indonesia.
PM - Watch out if your kids are going to Asia for a holiday.
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The handwringing over the tragic death of 18-year-old Thomas Kelly has so far produced the usual buckpassing and calls for more of almost everything, including police, CCTVs, transport and punishment.
But strategies that try to contain alcohol-related violence without attacking its root causes are likely to reduce street offences but not assaults or drink-driving deaths and injuries. We know this now because we have just tested them in rural communities in NSW, where the same alcohol-related violence and needless deaths occur.
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Families should teach their teens how to drink responsibly, writes student journalist Verity Johnson.
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Alcohol consumption causes more than 5000 cases of cancer in Australia each year - more than half of them breast cancer, new figures show.