Teenagers and alcohol by Belén and Esther (2 BachB)
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This document discusses the risks of teenage drinking and reasons why teenagers may drink. It finds that early drinking can negatively impact brain development, especially in the hippocampus which is important for memory and learning. This may help explain why those who start drinking early are more at risk of becoming alcoholic later in life. While some reasons teenagers drink include fitting in or overcoming shyness, the document argues these reasons are nonsense and drinking should not be promoted or influenced by social pressures. It provides examples of underage drinking issues, including finding 12-13 year olds in Spain drinking regularly and a 16 year old German who died from alcohol poisoning after ingesting 50 glasses of tequila.
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Prevention and early detection
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Drug and alcohol abuse can have a serious and lasting impact on the health and wellbeing
of young people. Stephanie Thornton explains what to do if you or a member of school staff
suspect drug or alcohol abuse in a student.
A student who has always seemed fairly motivated, fairly balanced starts to have problems
concentrating; he or she seems lethargic,
perhaps depressed, irritable, aggressive—
moody. Schoolwork falls off; perhaps there
is absenteeism. Does this reflect mental
health problems? Physical illness? Are
there problems at home? Or, is this a sign
of substance abuse?
Cause or effect?
In fact, it is likely to be a mixture of
things, one thing exacerbating another.
We know, for example, that teenagers
often begin drinking or trying drugs
after problems in the family—a parental
breakup, for instance (Roustit et al, 2007).
Problems in school, struggling with work,
bullying or social rejection are miseries in
themselves, and put the young at risk of
substance abuse. Mental health problems
are strongly associated with substance
abuse of all kinds—though it is not always
clear whether these problems are caused
by drugs and alcohol or are the reason
for using those substances, in an effort to
self-medicate.
There is good evidence that regular use
of cannabis is associated with aggression
in the young (Copeland et al, 2013), and
can cause or exacerbate depression, anxiety
(Patton et al, 2002) and other psychiatric
illness including major mental illness such
as psychosis (Johns, 2001). But the evidence
that alcohol abuse causes depression and
anxiety is more equivocal. Heavy drinking
is certainly associated with problems such
as depression (Sher, 2004), but it is unclear
Dr Stephanie Thornton,�chartered�
psychologist�and�former�lecturer�in�
psychology�and�child�development
functioning and substance abuse, it is
always worth considering whether a
troubled youngster is using drugs or
drinking. The point is underlined by
statistics on substance abuse in British
teenagers: such abuse is far from rare.
And, in fact we appear to have a greater
problem in this area than most of our
European neighbours.
As the media has noted, teenage drug
abuse has actually declined in the UK
in the past 20 years (Hibell et al, 2012).
Nevertheless, the most recent data report
that 25% of our 15–16-year-olds have tried
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2005). However, the evidence suggests that
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- 4. Reasons: * Overcoming shyness: Superación de la timidez *Imitate adults: Imitar adultos * Social Pressure: Presión social *Integration in some groups: Integración en algunos grupos IN SUMMARY THE REASONS ARE NONSENSE Nonsense: Absurdas
- 5. In Spain It isn´t uncommon to find children of 12 or 13 who are poisoned drinking alcohol regulary The teenagers go against their parents and using alcohol excessively and dangerously We shouldn´t let society to influence us wrongly, we musn´t allow be promoted to drink
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