Teenage alcohol misuse
The alcohol misuse is the term of mental and behavioral disorder
due to the use of extended quantity of alcohol. It also includes
alcohol-related health disorders, disease and accidents, crime
and anti-social behavior and driving offences, loss of productivity
in the workplace and problems for those who misuse alcohol and
their families, including domestic violence. Alcohol is the
most commonly misused substance in the world associated with
serious social, economic and health costs for the individual
and society.
Alcohol is a harmful drug among the teenagers and is accepted
in many societies. Mostly teenagers tend to be low-risk drinkers
and experience little harm caused by alcohol for most of the
time. However, when a teen drinks above the capable level
it rise a high level risk to their health. Alcohol is a major
risk factor and also may be prevented by teenagers for some
risk factor as wide varieties of diseases and injuries, cardiovascular
disease, liver cirrhosis, alcohol dependency and certain cancers.
It may also be the reason for motor vehicle accidents, suicide,
drowning, violence, educational problems and domestic fires
among teenagers.
The alcohol is misused by teenagers in two different ways
that is one that drinks inappropriately on occasion and the
other that is consistency engages in appropriate drinking.
In the first case the teenagers have a behavior of misconduct
and in the other case they are likely to have associated health,
absence and long-term performance problems. Some of the teenagers
have the problems of diabetes and epilepsy. Consequently when
dealing with problems caused by suspected alcohol misuse,
the teenagers should arrange appropriate assessment and make
a full investigation of all the circumstances before deciding
the appropriate action.
In spite of the fact that more teenagers use alcohol than
any other drug, studies of teenage alcohol misuse are relatively
rare. Those that exist frequently fail to include high school
dropouts and often focus on only part of the problem, such
as how much or how often the teen drinks. Among the alcohol
misuse teenagers about to 65 percent are those teenagers that
are found in some form of alcohol misuse. The two third parts
of the teenagers have engaged in high risk drinking and from
overall 55 percent of teenagers are experiencing one or more
alcohol related problems. More stringent estimates that require
variety or persistence of risky drinking and/or alcohol-related
problems still capture between 44% and 56% of this population.
Problems associated with alcohol misuse:
• Nervousness
• Insomnia
• Low memory and low concentration
• Feeling of self neglect
• Depressed mood
• Accident or injury causes by alcohol misuse
• Many physical diseases as ulcer, liver disease, diagnosis
problem
• Alcohol dependency
Education can help among teenagers to prevent from alcohol
misuse. They should try to understand the symptoms and side
effects produced by alcohol misuse. Instead of trying to stop
all consumption of a drug used almost universally among teens,
prevention efforts might more profitably focus on misuse of
alcohol, albeit in connection with teen social life.
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