Drinking during teens up alcohol abuse risk in later life


Team Udayavani, Feb 17, 2019, 1:18 PM IST

Washington: Drinking during teens up alcohol abuse risk in later life Drinking during adolescence can significantly increase the risk of alcohol addiction in later life, a study has found.

Researchers from Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE) in the US examined relationships between early age of first intoxication (less than 15 years), drinking in different contexts such as one’s own home, at friends’ homes, or outdoor settings, and problems that arise in those contexts.

Early onset drinking, drinking and intoxication at an early age among adolescents, has been identified as a primary risk for later heavy drinking, alcohol problems, and alcohol dependence among youth and young adults.

To prevent or delay early onset drinking, we must know more about the modifiable circumstances that enable these behaviours, researchers said.

Scientists looked at data from 405 adolescent drinkers (15-18 years old) in 2013 and 2014.

They focused upon measures of age of first intoxication, frequencies of drinking at restaurants, bars/nightclubs, outdoor places, and homes, and problems occurred during or after drinking in these places.

They assessed whether there were certain contexts associated with early age of intoxication and greater numbers of problems.

The team found that, about a third of adolescent drinkers experienced first intoxication by age 15, a third experienced it after age 15 years, and another third had used alcohol but never to intoxication.

Drinkers reported drinking most frequently in homes, followed by outdoor settings, and then restaurants, and bars or nightclubs.

Knowing the contexts most closely associated with early onset drinking allows us to develop effective prevention efforts toward those aspects of youth drinking environments, researchers said.

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