Posted on 09/16/2013 2:09:11 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Almost 1 in 10 U.S. high school seniors have engaged in recent extreme binge drinking—downing at least 10 drinks at a rate that barely budged over six years, according to a government-funded report.
Less severe binge drinking, consuming five or more drinks in a row, has mostly declined in recent years among teens. But for high school seniors, the 2011 rate for 10 drinks in a row—9.6 percent—was down only slightly from 2005.
The most extreme level—15 or more drinks in a row within the past two weeks—didn’t change from 2005 to 2011. Almost 6 percent of high school seniors reported recently drinking that amount. …
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Just ask the founding Board Member of the Choom Gang.
As long as there has been high school there has been binge drinking.
It is now known that the human brain is still developing until age 25 and doctors can match mental deficiencies to age of first binge.
Wow. They ought to pass a law banning teen-agers drinking.
Wow. They ought to pass a law banning teen-agers drinking.
when was this? 1910?
Of course, there has. We just didn't used to spend money doing studies on it. The drinking age should be dropped back to 18. The Republicans would be smart to propose it -- but they won't.
10 drinks is “extreme binge drinking”? When I was in high school, that was called a “good party”.
Obama’s fault!
hahahahah That’s funny
“extreme” “not uncommon”. Then it would appear to be the new normal, not so extreme after all.
Legalize alcohol and tax the hell out of it. I hear that would solve the problems!
Then again, maybe it's how the Choom Gang used to do it.
Nonetheless, Putin knows proper technique.
That is true.
Bingo!
And parents should be allowed to let their children have a glass of wine at Sunday dinner when the rest of the family is doing the same. Of course in some areas Sunday family dinner is a thing of the past.
Make it a huge taboo and teens are going to try it..........always has been that way and lways will.
The boys died in drunken car crashes. The girls got pregnant. Every class had a few dead & maimed boys & a few prego girls. The star football player of the day surprised me at a recent Homecoming by saying the team members often skipped lunch & chugged a 6-pack instead. Viewing the wrecked cars at the junkyard, looking for blood, was a common pastime. I was nearly in one of those cars one weekend.
The adults were no better. I recall a prominent woman of the day, drunk, sick & vomiting in the men's room at the Christmas dance. I helped clean her up. The stench of booze on the deacons passing the collection plate in church on Sunday morning was common. They set a poor example.
So, if the author is implying there is some new juvenile drinking epidemic, he must be awfully young & unaware of the past.
When the mother needed schnapps for the fondue she sent her 16 YO son to the liquor store on his bicycle. The 5 yo daughter shared in the fondue. Gooooood!
This was a big, serious woman who was absolute dictator of that house. Scary.
I remember one day coming home from work. She was swatting away at the painter with a broom for sitting on her porch & getting drunk instead of painting the house. She whacked him good until he ran off.
Seriously, alcohol is a drug that is easily abused by people of any age. It is probably the most destructive of all abused drugs.
Parents have to set the example. It does no good to introduce kids to alcohol at an early age with dinner if the parents then go on to get cross-eyed after dinner. Even the best of kids learn that getting drunk is OK & fun.
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