Stop the presses! CDC says teens binge drink!

[Nikijad4210]

Well, I hate to burst the CDC's bubble here, buuuuut.........



We kinda already know this.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/01/02/teens.drinking.reut/index.html

Teens binge drink, U.S. study finds
POSTED: 12:50 p.m. EST, January 2, 2007

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Nearly half of all U.S. high-school students admit to recently drinking alcohol illegally, and most of them were binge drinkers, according to a government survey published on Tuesday.

These binge drinkers -- who had five or more drinks in a row -- were more likely to have sex, fight, smoke or use drugs, the study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found.

"Our study clearly shows that it's not just that students drink alcohol, but how much they drink that most strongly affects whether they experience other health and social problems," said Dr. Jacqueline Miller of the CDC's Alcohol Team, who led the study.

"It also underscores the importance of implementing effective strategies to prevent underage and binge drinking, such as enforcing the minimum legal drinking age and reducing alcohol marketing to youth, which can help us change social norms regarding the acceptability of underage and binge drinking."

Across the United States, the minimum drinking age is 21, while most teens leave high school by age 17, 18 or 19.

Writing in the journal Pediatrics, the CDC team members said they analyzed data from 15,214 high-school students (ages 14 to 18) who completed the 2003 Youth Risk Behavior Survey.

They found that 45 percent of the students acknowledged having drunk alcohol in the past month. Of these, 64 percent were binge-drinkers.

And the binge drinkers were not simply experimenting -- 69 percent reported having done so more than once in the past 30 days.

Teen drinkers in general were more than twice as likely to be sexually active as non-drinkers, the researchers found.

They were more than four times as likely to smoke cigarettes and more than twice as likely to have been in a physical fight, the researchers found. These rates went up even higher for binge drinkers, they reported.

The binge drinkers were more than five times as likely as non-drinkers to be sexually active, more than 18 times as likely to smoke cigarettes, and more than four times as likely to have been in a physical fight. They were also far more likely to smoke marijuana and attempt suicide, the researchers said.

Drinkers also did more poorly in school, according to the survey.

Among other other studies on teenage alcohol use, in September the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration found that 16.5 percent of 12- to 17-year-olds admitted to drinking. That study included students younger than high school age.

The 2006 Monitoring the Future survey, done by the University of Michigan and published in December, found that 75 percent of 12th-graders, the oldest high school students, had tried alcohol.

 

[Guest]

Wow I am glad they are getting on top of the problem now. Oh wait no they are just figuring out they are drinking. When will they figure out they cant stop it? (Please dont answer thats a rhetorical question)

 

[B.C.]

WOW!

WOW!

High-ya Niki,Yep the CDC has an incredible sense of the obvious! Nothin gets by those guys.LOL Take care sis....BC

 

[Guest]

The Center for Overweight Older Citizens Or COO'C's as they prefer to be called.
Estimates that over one million old people binge on all you can eat buffets daily.
This has really streched the polyester market. And given rise to the Dumpling look Americans seem to be going for these days.

Big news popin up everywhere!lol

 

[Nikijad4210]

Lmfao, aw Willie, you always bring a side-splitting laugh to me

 

[Gypsy Nirvana]

'These binge drinkers -- who had five or more drinks in a row -- were more likely to have sex, fight, smoke or use drugs, the study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found.'


....WAIT A MINUTE....

.....ain't alcohol a DRUG?

 

[Verite]

I'll give it a year or two when the demand gets way up there.. then I can put my clean liver on e-bay. Highest bidder will get complimentary can of fava beans.

 

[Nikijad4210]

....WAIT A MINUTE....

.....ain't alcohol a DRUG?

One would think that yes, by default it is!
But apparently according to the CDC, not by their standards...

 

[Rosy Cheeks]

....WAIT A MINUTE....

.....ain't alcohol a DRUG?

No man, that's what James Bond takes to relax, it grows hair on your chest and makes you look manly.

 

[SCF]

Na its not a drug. its like a soda pop. comes in teh same cans.... that kids could think its a soda pop. Just like the medical marijuana candy right???????



I swear some people will never learn

 

[B.C.]

flflflflffl....

flflflflffl....

I'll give it a year or two when the demand gets way up there.. then I can put my clean liver on e-bay. Highest bidder will get complimentary can of fava beans.

Throw in a nice bottle of chianti and I'd bid. lol...BC

 

[Nikijad4210]

Throw in a nice bottle of keeantee' and you've got a deal!

Chianti? Great wine, I tell ya!

 

[trem0lo]

In other news, the sky is blue and the earth is round...

 

[B.C.]

lol

lol

Chianti? Great wine, I tell ya!

Oh Gawd! hahaha I was way off on that one! thanks sis.

 

[Nikijad4210]

Oh Gawd! hahaha I was way off on that one! thanks sis.

Hehe, I knew you were a little bit off on the spelling, I just didn't want to outright embarass ya over it

 

[T-type]

And in a new study high school students that admitted to smoking marijuana got in zero fights because they were sleeping happily.

 

[I Used To Grow]

I never touched a beer until I was 19..my frist time I drank beer I sat on the sidewalk with a neighbor kid that was my age and drank some Coors watching a party get busted across the street...lol