Child Alcoholism On The Rise
Child Alcoholism On The Rise
Hundreds of children are admitted to hospital every year, after their parents buy them alcohol, according to Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust. Their research discovered four 5-year-olds in 165 under-17 years old that have been treated in the past five years for drug and drink problems.
Three year old Midland's girl is the youngest child to be treated for alcoholism at the moment. She had been given alcohol frequently over a six month period. Experts say the child would have suffered terrible withdrawal symptoms, including shakes and mood swings. The worries are that the youngster may have suffered brain damage.
Chief executive of Drinkaware, Chris Sorek said: "Any child requiring hospital treatment for alcohol-related illness is a cause for great concern, not just because of the short-term risks but also long-term health problems such as brain development."
A few weeks before an 8 year old girl from Dundee, Scotland, had been known as the United Kingdom's youngest alcoholic.
London Ambulance Service figures in October 2010 showed that the number of 10 and 11-year-olds wanting medical treatment for alcohol abuse had more than doubled over the past two years. 50 children at least a week needed an ambulance in London, because they had drunk too much alcohol.
In the past five years the Ambulance Service said drunken youths have cost more than 2.5million in emergency call-outs.
It was revealed that youngsters could get drunk for half the cost of a bar of chocolate. It is estimated that numerous young people drink an average of 15 units a week, corresponding to a pint of beer per day.
"Every time we send an ambulance to somebody who dials 999 because they're drunk, it means we can't send that ambulance to somebody with a life-threatening condition or illness," said LAS deputy director of operations, Jason Killens.
Across Europe 26% of teenagers, in the latest survey of school-going children, said they had been under the influence of alcohol in the previous month - with girls outnumbering boys. 75percent of young people claim they found it easy to get hold of alcohol.
Alcohol Action Ireland proposes a double approach to teenage alcohol use: make serious penalties for selling alcohol to kids and young people a reality and commence a social marketing campaign based on changing adult drinking behavior, instead of focusing on children and young people's alcohol use.
Alcohol Concern and the Children's Society reports that parents who drink excessive alcohol influencing their children. 2.6million children in the UK now live with parents drinking "hazardously". Official statistics said that 1 out of every 10 person drinks alcoholically.
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