English More than 10,000 die each year from causes related to drinking
Alcohol is the drug cause more social harm: health, public order, violence. "Eusebio says it Megías, technical director of the Foundation for Help Against Drug Addiction." It produces the most chronic, "says the doctor Juan Flores, Advisor National Plan on Drugs: "The coca and cannabis disappear when you stop eating." Alcohol and snuff "create ten times more deaths than illegal drugs," said Bethlehem Bilbao, director of Drug Addiction of the Basque Government: "Believe much suffering and much more load in terms of public health."
Alcohol, next to snuff, is the great legal drug. Which leads all ready for consumption: 76.7% of the population making, according to the National Plan on Drugs. Spain is now the seventh country in the world in per capita consumption of 10.5 liters of alcohol a year. Alcohol causes in our country between 10% and 15% of emergency, 4% of hospital admissions, and related estimates more than 30% of fatal traffic accidents and between 15% and 25% of serious traffic accidents. In total, just over 10,000 people die in Spain each year from causes related to excessive alcohol consumption, according to the Ministry of Health.
The pattern of consumption, however, has changed over the years. It has gone from a Mediterranean model (daily, spread throughout the day, lots of wine) at a Nordic pattern (binge drinking in a short time, get drunk on the fast track, high presence of spirits).
The alcohol consumption by teens is much more than a problem of bottles or hangovers. The impact of drinking in some brains that are still in training will make at least one in three young people who begin drinking at 14 or 15 years have in the future to deal with an addiction to alcohol. According to Aaron White, Duke University (North Carolina), may be even worse in the alcohol influence biological and social, if the child's family has a history of alcoholism, the proportion of future addicts reached 48% .
The results in other age brackets coincide. For those who begin drinking at age 13 or earlier, the proportions alcoholics futures are 26% if no family history and 57% if they exist. The trend decreases with age.
The pattern of consumption, however, has changed over the years. It has gone from a Mediterranean model (daily, spread throughout the day, lots of wine) at a Nordic pattern (binge drinking in a short time, get drunk on the fast track, high presence of spirits).
The alcohol consumption by teens is much more than a problem of bottles or hangovers. The impact of drinking in some brains that are still in training will make at least one in three young people who begin drinking at 14 or 15 years have in the future to deal with an addiction to alcohol. According to Aaron White, Duke University (North Carolina), may be even worse in the alcohol influence biological and social, if the child's family has a history of alcoholism, the proportion of future addicts reached 48% .
The results in other age brackets coincide. For those who begin drinking at age 13 or earlier, the proportions alcoholics futures are 26% if no family history and 57% if they exist. The trend decreases with age.
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