On the occasion of the “Sober January” operations, that is to say drinking in a reasonable way, or “Dry January”, January without alcohol, we wonder about alcoholism among the youngest.
As the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) reminds us, starting to drink at 11-12 years old increases the risk of developing alcohol dependence tenfold, compared to an initiation around 18 years old.
As for “binge drinking”, the fact of drinking alcohol massively and quickly, if practiced between the ages of 18 and 25, it multiplies by three the risk of becoming alcohol-dependent.
Drinking at 11 increases the risk of becoming addicted
This alcohol consumption among teenagers and young adults represents "a time bomb", because of the risk of addiction, underlines Laurence Cottet, patient-expert in addictology at the Grenoble University Hospital, former alcoholic patient.
The one who abused alcohol at the age of 15 tells about the spiral then the disease, and the keys to getting out of it in
No!
I stopped
at InterEditions Poche (2022).
She is the guest of our news podcast “Minute Papillon!
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As a reminder, approximately 41,000 deaths are attributable to alcohol each year in France, alcohol still remaining the second cause of premature death in our country, and one of the leading causes of hospitalization.
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