Teenage Drinking Problems

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This paper discusses whether drinking problems in the United States among teenagers are more prevalent than in Europe because of the later drinking age laws. This paper explores the problem among German youths and suggests that German young people face many of the same problems that many young Americans do and that problems stemming from alcohol consumption have not been eliminated in Germany by looser age rules.

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"In the United States, those who will develop the habit of drinking too much alcohol typically begin this pattern by late adolescence. This behavior often peaks in their early twenties, and often declines after that, although some people continue to exhibit problems with alcohol consumption throughout their lives (Muthen & Muthen, 2000). Both men and women follow this pattern although young women typically do not consume as much alcohol as young men of comparable ages (Muthen & Muthen, 2000). Those numbers do not demonstrate the level of alcohol consumption, nor the age at which it may begin, however. Some research shows that in the United States, by 10th grade, 80% of American teens had tried alcohol, and one-third had participated in heavy drinking in the month prior to being interviewed by the researchers (Barnow et. al., 2002). In another study, nearly one-third of the teens interviewed typically got drunk when they drank and acknowledged that their drinking was making problems for them (Barnow et. al., 2002)."

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