Children's doctors in the UK need to take a much stronger and more visible role in helping to ward off future alcohol problems by, among other things, campaigning to raise the legal at-home drinking age for kids from 5, argues an independent health education lecturer in a personal viewpoint, published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Children's doctors in the UK need to take a much stronger and more visible role in helping to ward off future alcohol problems by, among other things, campaigning to raise the legal at-home drinking age for kids from 5, argues an independent health education lecturer in a personal viewpoint, published online in theAnd they need to do far more to educate parents about the potential harms of early exposure to alcohol, including dispelling the French familymyth that childhood acculturation...
Alcohol is particularly problematic for the young, highlights the author. Globally, it remains the leading risk factor for Preliminary research suggests that introducing children to alcohol may sensitize the neurocircuitry of addiction by inducing neuroadaptations in brain regions involved in reward and addiction. Teen drinking may also lead to changes in"A more visible position by the pediatric profession is required which wrests ownership from that of alcohol initiation being a cultural issue to being a formal medical issue presided over by pediatric medicine—not the national culture," he insists.
And doctors can highlight the"normalizing" influence of the alcohol industry on school teaching materials, including lesson plans, fact sheets, and films, through their charities, youth education projects, and education trusts, he suggests.
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