In this section we have become used to explore the world of adolescence. There is clearly a pivotal time in the life of the individual where there is structure. Alcohol? Everyone knows, including children! It occupies a privileged place in society, cuisine and French culture. On the eve of the holiday season, it is necessary to pay attention to a phenomenon that seems to affect more and more young people: alcohol abuse.
Planet Saturday night ...
One Saturday evening on the Seine, I'm alpagué by a gang of youths apparently intoxicated. We'll name them Ludovic, Marion, Sarah, Thomas and Jenny * - the oldest was barely seventeen years. Around them, a graveyard of bottles of all brands - empty, others full and started ... They still want me to go buy them because they do not have that right. I'm curious to know where do they need to put your head upside down so early? Marion tells us la porte de cet alcoolisme du samedi soir : « prendre une cuite est un moyen de s'éclater avec des potes et surtout de s'affirmer, c'est de notre âge ». La réponse cinglante de la plus jeune des demoiselles est une gifle pour moi l'adulte. Bizarrement, je ne suis pas vraiment étonné. En effet, l'alcoolisme juvénile atteint désormais une population de plus en plus jeune et de plus en plus féminine. Une étude publiée en janvier 1997 parle de 17% de lycéennes françaises entre 14 et 17 ans consommant régulièrement de l'alcool ; dix ans plus tard, pour la même tranche d'âge, ce pourcentage a doublé voir triplé. Elles sont now about 47% engage in almost daily.
First, teenagers are drinking from imitation because they saw their parents do. Then Sarah , another sidekick, opens the door to his world as it is shy and reserved, using alcohol to celebrate, to be funnier and especially dredged.
Horrible usability and dangerous ...
The band, like thousands of others across Europe, finds herself on Saturdays for fun. Consumption scale very quickly in excess. This is called the binge drinking express or bun; more common in Anglo-Saxon countries - Holland, Norway, Great Britain ... It is to absorb a large amount of alcohol in a very short period of time - requires permission from midnight! The main objective is to be drunk as soon as possible. We could laugh because this alcohol on Saturday night as well horrible effects is not dangerous in itself. However, with the usual dose of alcohol increases and Saturday is no longer sufficient, times and locations of drinking will move - the enclosure of the same school will not be spared.
As Sarah and Marion, most young people justified their alcohol by the friendliness, the worries, failures, and fear. They are nevertheless aware that alcohol is a slippery slope. But they do not feel concerned by the long term. They think to stop in time. However alcohol can become a prison, a drug. It is not a friend let alone a permanent source of inspiration.
This nocturnal encounter immerse myself in a certain melancholy. Why do they drink? "To forget! "Tit for tat replica Thomas bantering. Forget what? "To forget that we are ashamed," shouts he hanging his head. Ashamed of what? I was trying to understand who wish, in a reflex of paternalism, to rescue them. "Ashamed of drinking! "He finally trust me, while insisting that I go with vulgarity to buy them a drink at the local grocer.
damage hello!
We can consider the binge drinking as an indicator of alcohol consumption problem. It means a willingness to transgress the law. This mode of consumption and behavioral disorders associated with it are the main cause of social dangerousness of alcohol: loss of control, violent and impulsive behavior (fights, physical, moral or sexual) ... In addition to violence, there are serious medical complications: acute poisoning, respiratory disorders, trauma, alcoholic coma and in some exceptional cases, death.
So dear friends, eat in moderation. Think about tomorrow because these excesses can also damage the long-term brain.
* Names have been to ensure the anonymity and privacy of minors.
STAR INFO / No. 7 December 2008
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