{"id":9552,"date":"2014-01-10T11:08:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T11:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9552"},"modified":"2014-03-24T12:47:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T12:47:43","slug":"abuse-of-alcohol-is-an-adult-problem-not-a-teenage-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/abuse-of-alcohol-is-an-adult-problem-not-a-teenage-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuse of Alcohol is an Adult Problem, Not a Teenage One"},"content":{"rendered":"The classic image of drunken teenagers creating havoc in our city centers may not reflect reality according to <a title=\"Alcohol and Cigarettes in Young People\" href=\"http:\/\/www.esds.ac.uk\/doc\/7156\/mrdoc\/pdf\/7156report_of_findings.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">statistics from the NHS.<\/a>\r\n\r\nFigures suggest that the number of 11-15 year-olds who have drunk alcohol in the past week is down to 12% from 26% a decade ago. Those who said they had ever drunk alcohol fell from 61% to 45%. These declines in alcohol consumption are mirrored by figures for older teenagers and young adults, suggesting that alcohol is far more of an issue for grown-ups; the over 40s are spending 40% more on alcohol than they did ten years ago.\r\n\r\nThere are suggestions as to why today\u2019s teenagers are \u2018dryer\u2019 than previous generations: booze is harder to get hold of due to ID cards; social media means youth are entertained and connected in ways that don\u2019t involve pubs and getting wasted; there is a larger teenage Muslim community which shuns alcohol consumption and so on.\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s not just alcohol consumption that\u2019s on the decrease; today\u2019s teenagers are less likely to have tried smoking than their peers ten years ago. In fact, the only \u2018drugs\u2019 on the rise among young people are prescription ones for example Ritalin (commonly used to control symptoms of ADHD) and \u2018vigilance promoting\u2019 drugs such as Modafinil used to power students through long study sessions.\r\n\r\nWhat\u2019s going on?\r\n<h2><strong>Is it true, as some commentators have suggested, that the mother\/daughter TV sitcom Absolutely Fabulous was strangely prophetic? Are we a generation of irresponsible Edina mums bringing up our sensible children?<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nfeatured image by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.matrixdiagnostics.co.uk\/campaign-to-discourage-adults-from-buying-alcohol-for-the-under-aged\/\" target=\"_blank\"> matrix diagnostics<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The classic image of drunken teenagers creating havoc in our city centers may not reflect reality according to statistics from the NHS. 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