{"id":36741,"date":"2018-07-11T11:32:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T11:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=36741"},"modified":"2018-07-11T11:32:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T11:32:57","slug":"teens-drinking-regularly-face-worse-alcohol-problems-than-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/teens-drinking-regularly-face-worse-alcohol-problems-than-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Teens drinking regularly face worse alcohol problems than adults&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teens aged under 17 who drink alcohol weekly are three times more likely to binge drink and be dependent on alcohol as adults compared with their peers who don&#8217;t drink, an Australian-led research said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The study further debunks the myth that teen experimentation with alcohol promotes responsible drinking, instead it sets a young person up for later-life drinking problem,&#8221; Xinhua news agency quoted Professor George Patton from the Murdoch Children&#8217;s Research Institute as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers looked at the drinking patterns of 9,000 adolescents in Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>The findings suggest that delaying drinking alcohol would have &#8220;significant public health benefits&#8221; as well as showing that public health messages &#8220;need to focus as much on frequency of drinking as the amount consumed&#8221;, said lead author Edmund Silins.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teens aged under 17 who drink alcohol weekly are three times more likely to binge drink and be dependent on alcohol as adults compared with their peers who don&#8217;t drink, an Australian-led research said on Wednesday. &#8220;The study further debunks the myth that teen experimentation with alcohol promotes responsible drinking, instead it sets a young [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36743,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36741\/revisions\/36743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}