Chief Medical Officer Publishes Guidance on Children Drinking Alcohol
Research shows that four out of 10 Welsh 15-year-olds drink alcohol on a weekly basis and that two out of 10 15-year-olds report having been drunk for the first time at the age of 13 or younger. Read more….
Students Tackle Underage Drinking in Hanover
…Statistics show that colleges lose 25 percent of their freshman class to dropouts using alcohol and drugs. Read more…
Risk-Taking Rises When youth Reach Legal Drinking Age, Study Finds
College students are more likely to drink and drive after they reach the legal drinking age of 21, according to researchers from the University of Maryland School of Public Health. Read more…
Community Conversation: Parents Need to Lead by Example
…It was rather clear students in the upper grades — 11th and 12th — were frequent consumers, given they are more independent and their parent have less control and less knowledge of where they are and what they are doing. The reasons students gave included “work hard and party hard,” “peer pressure,” “image,” “calming nerves or enhancing performance,” and a feeling “they can drink the night before and still perform the next day” (whereas it is not the case with drug use).
Younger students appear to base their assumptions of what older students are doing on things they see and hear, such as the behavior at a recent RAVE at Trackside, the hearsay “knowledge” of the “drug hallway” and “pot bathroom” at the high school, and pictures on Facebook of parties that identify groups of students using alcohol. Eighth graders also believe chewing tobacco is prevalent among high school athletes. Read more…
