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1. Young people, alcohol and
health
Dr. Jean-Pascal
Assailly, psychologist, researcher
and expert for the World Bank
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3. Sources
• ESPAD Study: www.espad.org
• HBSC Study: www.hbsc.org/
• ESCAPAD Study (french only):
www.ofdt.fr/BDD/publications/docs/eisxstra.pdf
• YOUNG PEOPLE AND
ALCOHOL, trends, causes, consequences and strategies
of prevention, Dr. Assailly
• WHO Global status report on alcohol and health, 2011 :
www.who.int
1.Alcoholism - epidemiology. 2.Alcohol drinking -
adverse effects. 3.Social control, Formal - methods.
4.Cost of illness. 5.Public policy. I.World
Health Organization.
5. Differences young
men/women
GIRLS
DRINK LESS ALCOHOL
FEWER ALCOHOL RELATED PROBLEMS
DRINKING FOLLOWS THE AGENDA OF FEMINISM
HIGHEST VOLUME IN NORDICS COUNTRIES
BOYS
HIGHER CONSUMPTION ON THEIR MOST RECENT
DRINKING DAY THAN GIRLS
BINGE DRINKING DURING THE PAST 30 LAST DAYS
MORE COMMON AMONG BOYS THAN GIRLS
General Trends
6. Differences young
men/women
General Trends
GIRLS AND BOYS
SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES
FOUND IN ALL COUNTRIES
HIGHER INTOXICATION SCORE IN
A COUNTRY GIRLS ARE
FOLLOWING THE BAD EXAMPLE
OF BOYS
GENDER DIFFERENCES
DRINKING AS A MARKER OF
MASCULINITY
7. Differences young
men/women
Beverage type: beer and spirits
GIRLS
33% OF GIRLS’ CONSUMPTION: SPIRITS
BOYS
50% OF BOYS’ CONSUMPTION: BEER
Causes of alcohol misuse
GIRLS
NEGATIVE INTERNAL STATE
FAMILY CONFLICTS
BOYS
PEER PRESSURE
SOCIAL EXPECTANCIES
9. Alcohol-related brain damage
Young ‘at-risk’ drinkers: vulnerability markers?
Definition
Alcohol-related brain damage (ARBD) is a result of
chronic excessive alcohol misuse
10. Alcohol-related brain
damage
Specific drinking patterns in young people
Critical period in brain development
particularly vulnerable to alcohol misuse
Influence of substance use on mental
health: vulnerability
Early prevention and treatment
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11. Is alcohol use a risk factor or a risk marker?
Age of onset of regular
drinking
CONSEQUENCES
Immediate consequences of alcohol use (blackouts, hangovers)
Brain deficits
School failure
Alcohol dependency
Traffic accidents (related to alcohol) and violations
Delinquency and antisocial behavior
Individuals who start regular alcohol at 14 years and
before are at increased risk of developing alcohol use
disorders
12. →Positive consequences at least as strongly associated
with drinking as negative consequences.
→Possible role of Fun/Social consequences in the
escalation and maintenance of high-risk drinking.
The types of the
consequences of drinking
Fun/social
Relaxation/coping
Positive image
Physical
Behavioral
Driving
13. The beliefs of students
about drinking
Copying with
internal state
(anxiety)
Copying with
external state (social
situation)
Enhancement of
internal positive
state (pleasure)Enhancement of
external positive state
(friendship)
Positive global
effects
Reduction of
negative emotional
states
Activation and
agression
Activation and sexual
pleasure
Relaxation and
tension
reduction
14. The “false” consensus
Overestimation by students of the extent of their fellow students' alcohol
consumption
Campaigns measuring and communicating the real prevalence have
produced positive effects on binge drinking, changing the perceived social
norm (20% instead of 80% !!)
Definition
Overestimation of the prevalence of drinking on the
campus
15. Peers influences on drinking
behavior
Important role models of friends and siblings
Strong similarity in drinking between best
friends and adolescents but best friends are
not permanent!
Ambivalent value of popularity among peers
Importance of alcohol in peer-selection
processes
16. Drink and driving
Presence of alcohol in 30% of fatal traffic accidents of
young people: first cause of death of young people,
important cause of license suspension
Driver designation: no data on students about this impact
Mobility offers: no data on students about the impact of
alcohol consumption
17. Second hand” and
environmental effects”
Direct impacts of campuses with many binge drinkers
Having sleep or study interrupted
Having to take care of a drunken student
Being insulted or assaulted
Being the victim of unwanted sexual advances
Having personal property vandalized
Impacts on universities
More alcohol outlets within a mile, lower socioeconomic status
environment, lowered quality of neighborhood life
Impacts of alcohol outlets
Importance of the number of nearby alcohol outlets mediating the
relationship between universities
19. Consequences of drinking on
health
SHORT TERM CONSEQUENCES
Acute alcohol intoxication
Young people less body mass than
adults and more likely to lose control
and to take risks
Young people more vulnerable than
adults
Sedative effect of alcohol less important
for young adults compared to adults
Blackouts or loss of memory due to an
episode of heavy drinking
Alcohol myopia
20. Consequences of drinking on health
FOCUS ON TWO CONSEQUENCES
BLACKOUT MYOPIA
25% of university students who
drank reported blackouts during
the school year.
Incidence doubled (54%) among
frequent binge drinkers.
Blackout for girls with an average
of only 5 drinks. Males averaged 9
drinks per occurrence.
More blackouts and forgetting
events among young people than
adult drinkers
Intoxication
Underestimation of the possible
negative consequences of
decisions and overestimation of
the positive consequences
Applied to all types of decision-
making
Conjunction with pre-existent
individual characteristics, type of
relationship with the partner and
motivations
21. Consequences of drinking on
health
LONG TERM CONSEQUENCES
SLEEP DEPRESSION
ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE SOCIAL RISKS TAKING (unprotected sex)
FRIENDSHIP
23. How to define what is moderate
and excessive drinking?
24. No more than 4 drinks in one occasion
Being able of abstinence one day
Daily use not excess 20 g of pure alcohol
How to define what is moderate
and excessive drinking?
MODERATE?
WOMEN
no more than 2 units
per day
MEN
no more than 3 units
per day
25. How to define what is moderate
and excessive drinking?
BUT…
No consistent definitions of moderate or heavy drinking
Underestimations of the volume of alcohol included in standard drinks
Inconsistencies in research reports about the relative benefits and harms of different
types of alcoholic beverages
Differences in the way self-reported “drinks” different across different countries, within
countries, and between different beverage types and in different drinking settings
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