Young women have a higher prevalence of alcohol consumption, but global censuses indicate that men have a higher mortality rate.
A recent study highlighted the need for early intervention for adolescent alcohol consumption: he 71.5% of those surveyed claimed to have consumed drinks for the first time before the 15 yearswhile another 12.41% said they had done it before they were 12.
The figures were recorded by the Observatory of Addictions and Problematic Consumptionbelonging to the Ombudsman’s Office of the Province of Buenos Aires, which censused 18,000 young people from Buenos Aires between 12 and 21 years old. In this age range, 68% used at some time, with a higher prevalence of women (71.62%) than men (67.23%) and non-binary people (70.8%). The consumption is not coincidental, given that 64.95% claimed to have done so in the last month and 91% in the last year.
Other focuses of action aim tol 13% who said they had drunk excessively (five or more glasses on the same occasion) intentionally, while a percentage greater than 36% admitted to having gotten into a car driven by a person who had consumed alcohol.
In the details of the study, the places where young people most choose to consume alcohol are bowling and friends’ housesand they choose drinks for their flavor or for fun. Among the respondents, the fernet It is the most consumed among both men (34%) and women (27.7%), followed by vodka.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), both diseases attributable to excessive alcohol consumption how incidents resulting from alcoholism cause 2.6 million deaths per year globally. This index reveals that one in every twenty deaths occurs for this reason. The same study indicates that three out of every four of these deaths correspond to men and that the age group of between 20 and 39 years They represent 13% of the total deaths.
Ranking of the most alcoholic countries in the world
He American Addiction Center (AAC)based on data from the World Health Organization (WHO)revealed the countries that lead the alcohol consumption in the world. The European predominance in the ranking highlights the deep-rooted relationship of this region with the drinking culture.
For your partArgentina ranks third in alcohol consumption in all of Americaregistering 9.1 liters of pure alcohol per capita per year, ranking in the position 45 worldwide. The WHO report places our country behind Canada (10 liters) and USA (9.3 liters), surpassing for the first time Chili (9 liters) compared to the previous report of 2014.
The list evaluated the annual consumption per capita, measured in liters. Thus, the ranking of the 10 most alcoholic countries was composed as follows:
- Cook Islands – 12.97
- Latvia – 12.90
- Czech Republic – 12.37
- Lithuania – 11.93
- Austria – 11.90
- Antigua and Barbuda – 11.88
- Estonia – 11.65
- France – 11.44
- Bulgaria – 11.18
- Slovenia – 11.05
Source: Ambito
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