HEALTH TIPS: Drinking, bingeing, and more teen trouble

Health Tip – Audio Version - Drinking, bingeing, and more teen trouble
Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Tips for Teens: Know the Truth about Alcohol (National Clearinghouse for Alcohol & Drug Information)

When
teens drink, it means trouble. When teens binge drink, the trouble is
worse. And a lot of teens drink. A study by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention has the numbers to show it.

The report on a survey of more than 15,000 high school students is in the American Academy of Pediatrics journal Pediatrics.

Almost half of high school students drank in a given past month. Of
the drinkers, almost two thirds binged, which the study defines as five
or more in a row.

Bingers were more likely to do other dangerous things. The CDC’s Jacqueline Miller lists some:

“Riding with someone who had been drinking, driving after drinking
themselves, sexual activity, being involved in a fight, attempting
suicide, and other drug use.”

To Miller, it’s a call to action.

Health Tip courtesy of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Last revised: September, 17 2007