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    Iceland has found a way to reduce teen alcoholism, maybe drugs too?

    Wonder if more parental time, curfews etc reducing teen alcoholism will help control the opioid crisis?
    https://www.csmonitor.com/Daily/2017...use?src=shared
    "In the 1980s and ’90s, Icelandic youths were some of the hardest drinking kids in Europe. One 1998 survey found that 42 percent of 10th-graders said they had been drunk within the past 30 days. So parents, researchers, and local leaders got together and tried a new approach. The focus shifted from the responsibility of individual teenagers to group efforts like curfews for youths, the creation of after-school activities as alternatives to drinking, and the promotion of more parent-child quality time. It worked: A repeat of that 1998 survey in 2017 found only 5 percent of 10th-graders got drunk in the past 30 days. Now the model is being exported abroad – though whether it will achieve the same level of success remains to be seen."
    As Cicero said, “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”

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    I also have some suspicions about the effects of the insanely high prices of alcohol in Iceland these days.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bae View Post
    I also have some suspicions about the effects of the insanely high prices of alcohol in Iceland these days.
    Yeah, I heard a beer at a pub is $15.00 and that isnt at the airport, that is a regular bar.

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