Mongan, Deirdre (2011) Combating underage alcohol abuse through sport. Drugnet Ireland, Issue 36, Winter 2010, pp. 13-14.
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A recent report from the Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Sport, Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs1 examines alcohol use and its harmful effects among young people and considers how sport might be used to address this problem. A substantial proportion of young Irish people drink alcohol. The 2006 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study survey found that 1 in 5 16-year-olds were weekly drinkers, half reported having ever been drunk and 1 in 7 had been drunk at least 10 times, with rates of consumption and drunkenness increasing with each year of age.2 Using figures from a 2006 study by the Office of Tobacco Control3 we can estimate that 12–17-year-olds in Ireland spend €144,056,552 per year on alcohol.
B Substances > Alcohol
G Health and disease > Substance use disorder (addiction) > Alcohol use disorder
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Prevention by setting > Sports based prevention
L Social psychology and related concepts > Availability, accessibility, and supply
MP-MR Policy, planning, economics, work and social services > Financial management > Sponsorship
T Demographic characteristics > Adolescent / youth (teenager / young person)
T Demographic characteristics > Underage drinker
VA Geographic area > Europe > Ireland
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