A Difficult Childhood Can Lead To Teenage Drinking

A Difficult Childhood Can Lead To Teenage Drinking
An African study has found a link between a difficult childhood and alcohol consumption as a teenager. Researchers writing in BioMed Central’s open access journal Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health studied the association between adverse childhood experiences and drunkenness among 9,189 adolescents aged 12-19 years living in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi, and Uganda. Dr. Caroline …
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UK beer brewer shares Khama’s sentiments
When President Ian Khama calls for a levy and punitive measures on the alcohol industry, there is something wrong with him, but when the concern of binge drinking is raised by a beer brewer, who also calls for strict restrictions and legislations to control alcohol abuse, it goes to show just how big the binge drinking problem is.
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