More Young Drinkers Need Hospital Treatment
Type: Union News Subject: Mental Health
11 November 2009
Hospitals in NSW have seen a 50% increase in the numbers of young people treated for alcohol problems in eight years.
Researchers, who reviewed emergency room data from 43 hospitals across NSW between 2000 and 2008, claim the trend mirrors the rise in the consumption of alcopops.
'The rise in alcohol-related presentation among teenagers bodes poorly for subsequent long-term alcohol use disorders'.
‘Analysis of routine ED databases can provide a timely insight into the social and epidemiological context of high-risk drinking,’ wrote NSW Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol Office Director David McGrath and fellow researchers in the Medical Journal of Australia.
‘The rise in alcohol-related presentation among teenagers and young adults bodes poorly for subsequent long-term alcohol use disorders and other risk behaviours and their consequences.’
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