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November 15, the day world without Alcohol.
– one of every three young Spanish workers aged between 14 and 18 are has been drunk in the last 30 days and more than half (52.9%) of them / as has done it in the past twelve months. 23% Of the / students declares drink all weekends. Unlike other drug use, drinking young, intensively, has increased in recent years. Among other reasons, by the relaxation in the prevention of risks this consumption. On world day without Alcohol, Athena Foundation launches the campaign tengounmitoparati to unmount the myths that youth credited in relation to alcohol
Spain, November 2011- one of every three young Spanish workers aged between 14 and 18 years has been drunk in the last 30 days and more than half (52.9%) of them / as it has done in the past twelve months. 23% Of the / students declares drink all weekends. And a high percentage of the / same as / ACE believes that do this often, all week, but only Friday, Saturday or Sunday, weekends does not cause damage.
According to data that reveal the surveys carried out the Government delegation for the National Plan on drugs among secondary school students from 14 to 18 years (surveys ESTUDES), while the consumption of other substances is reduced, alcohol continues to be one whose consumption is most widespread in the youth psychoactive substancewith the aggravating circumstance that are the consumptions of intensive type (drinking or alcohol poisoning and binge drinking or binge consumption) during the weekend which have increased, noting that the prevalence of binge drinking are slightly higher in girls than in boys.
According to a study of the Spanish society of emergency paediatric, 48.6 per cent of children aged 12 to 18 attended by poisoning in hospital emergency, had consumed alcohol and/or illegal drugs. 67.1% Of them came between 8 p.m. on Friday at 9 a.m. on Monday. 92.9% Had consumed alcohol (10% of them consumed illegal drugs also) and the remaining 7.1% only used drugs illegal.
far the consumption data. But what about the motivations? what it encourages alcohol consumption or what fails at the time of the occurrence of such intensive and so perceived as of low-risk consumption? For Athena Foundation, the perception of the risks of the use of this drug is not strong enough for as to contribute to reducing its consumption, which joins the surreal drama of circulating information on the consequences of alcohol consumption, campaigns of prevention of consumption by administrations and institutions with messages away from the languagethe approach and own their recipients as channels and double existing speech at the social level on the consumption of alcohol, among other reasons.
For these reasons, Athena Foundation, with the co-financing of the Government delegation for the National Plan on drugs, has launched the tengounmitoparati , a prevention campaign of the intensive use of alcohol by young people which is developed through social networks TuentiTwitter, Facebook, Youtube and Digg in order to provide information to the / young ACE on the consequences of the consumption of this substance and of dismantling myths as alcohol is linked, it is possible to circumvent controls breath or that it does not happen anything by drinking all the weekends, as well as meet your real motivations towards consumption and interact with them /.
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