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TEENAGED DRINKING

This research examines the phenomenon of teenaged drinking in the contemporary United States. The goal of this examination is the identification of an approach to the issue that will be effective in reducing the frequency and severity of social problems associated with teenaged drinking.

While fewer teenagers are consuming alcohol in the mid-1990s than was the case five years earlier, contemporary teenagers are initiating drinking behaviors earlier than past generations (Fertman, 1995, pp. 42-44; Meilman, 1190, pp. 389-395). Recent surveys indicate that two-thirds of 13 year olds in the United States have tried alcohol (Fertman, pp. 42-44). Various surveys indicate that the proportion of regular users of alcohol among American teenagers is in the range of 24-to-60 percent, while from 12-to-43 percent of teenagers participate in drinking binges (Tobacco, alcohol, 1992, pp. 1841-1842). According to the national Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 20 percent of American teenagers are problem drinkers (Alexander, 1991, pp. 527-532).

Among teenagers, males drink more per capita than females, and more males than females consume alcohol on a more or less regular basis (O'Hare, 1990, pp. 536-541). The mean amount of alcohol consumed per drinking occasion is also higher among males than females (Crowley, 1991, pp. 10-16).

Causes Of And Motivations For Alcohol Consumption By Teenagers

There are four general groups of theories explaining the development of alcohol abuse behavior--(1) learning theories-- holding that persons learn to use alcohol as a means of coping, and that the use eventually becomes addictive, (2) physiological theories--holding variously that nutritional deficiencies and genetics lead to alcoholism, (3) psychoanalytic theories-- holding variously that childhood experiences, self-destructive drives, feelings of inferiority and insecurity, and locus of control orientations lead to alcoholism, and (4) so...

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