razz
12-29-17, 6:51pm
Wonder if more parental time, curfews etc reducing teen alcoholism will help control the opioid crisis?
https://www.csmonitor.com/Daily/2017/20171229/How-Iceland-is-beating-teen-alcohol-abuse?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."
https://www.csmonitor.com/Daily/2017/20171229/How-Iceland-is-beating-teen-alcohol-abuse?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."