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| The age of beginning to drink has drifted downwards over the last 20 years. A recent study reported that the average age at which students start drinking is 11.6 years.
More than 50% of young people will have experienced feeling drunk by the time they leave school. Binge drinking (five or more drinks in succession), is becoming more and more prevalent amongst teenagers.According to the 1999 Garda Annual Report, 10% of juvenile crimes committed were drink related. There are no indications that young people are enticed into drinking by any particular drink. Rather, it would seem that they tend to drink largely what adults drink. |
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The number of young people who have never tried a drink has diminished dramatically and by the legal drinking age (18 years), approx 98% of young people will have tried alcohol.
Secondary purchasing, whereby older people purchase alcohol and pass it on to underage drinkers, is misguided and increases the problem.
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