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Alcoholism
There has been an ever increasing trend of young people getting to the habit of too much drinking. This is rampant at the point where these youth become of legal age and to majority, that acts as the go ahead to binge drinking and absolute abuse of alcohol. There are various issues that are related to excessive drinking especially among the youth. These risks are emanated as one moves from one category to another as of these categories formed by the HNS (2010);
Lower-risk drinkers -- who are the teenagers drinking between 2-3 units and are at a lower risk of causing themselves health risks in the future. However they may be exposed to injury if operating machinery, dangerous driving, risk or drowning if planning to go swimming alone without peers, babies may be affected in the womb for teenagers who get pregnant these among other minor risks.
Increasing-risk drinkers -- this level has a higher risk of damaging health of the teenager. Here the teenagers are observed to take 3-4 units of alcohol on a regular basis. The related health risks here are susceptibility to caner of the mouth, of the neck...
Other problems of excessive drinking are risks of breast cancer for female teenagers, liver cirrhosis, high blood pressure, fatigue, depression, poor sleep, weight loss and sexual problems among the teenagers.
Higher-risk drinkers- this is the highest point of the teenagers damaging their health due to alcohol related problems. At this level, the teenager could be taking 8 units and above and on a regular basis. The teenagers here might be at risk of the conditions mentioned above and may be in a deeper crisis of the same than the above two groups. The teenager at this stage could be at a much worse shape physically as compared to the other levels above or even those who do not drink. It is also at this level that alcohol usually damages the relationship between the teenager and other people around him/her.
There are various reasons why teenagers drink (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 2012); one of the reasons is the environment that the teenager grew up in. If there was an atmosphere where drinking was not castigated then they are likely to drink too. Expectancies of…
References
HNS (2010). The risks of drinking too much. Retrieved February 22, 2012 from http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/alcohol/Pages/Effectsofalcohol.aspx
Men's health (2012). 4 Strange Reasons You Drink Too Much. Retrieved February 22, 2012 from http://news.menshealth.com/reasons-for-binge-drinking/2012/01/21/
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, (2012). Underage Drinking: Why Do Adolescents Drink, What Are the Risks, and How Can Underage Drinking Be Prevented? Retrieved February 22, 2012 from http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/AA67/AA67.htm
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