Saturday, December 8, 2012

Meet the new puritans: young Britons cut back on drink and drugs

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Figures

show "cultural turn" that students reject the excesses of the past two decades

young Britons, widely portrayed as drunken, hedonistic, become the new puritans, according to official figures and reports of student bars across the country.

statistics showing a steady decline in alcohol consumption, especially among students, suggests that increasingly reject the culture of drink and drugs their parents' generation and reverse the excesses of the 1990s, said Professor Fiona Measham, a criminologist at the University of Durham, who has studied the habits more than two decades.

health professionals Measham attacked for not being willing to recognize changes in behavior, and for persisting with "shock tactics" to frighten young.

Health Department statistics show a decrease since 2001 in the number of children under 16 who drink in England. The latest report from the Department of Health

use tobacco, alcohol and drug use among young people in England

reveals that the proportion of 11 - 15 years who drank alcohol in the week preceding the survey increased from 26% in 2001 to 12% in 2011.

There was a decrease in the proportion of this age group who think that alcohol is acceptable for someone of his age. In 2010, 55% had never drank alcohol (39% in 2001), while 32% believe it is acceptable for someone their age to drink once a week, against 46% in 2003 . Similarly, 11% of students thought it was OK for someone of his age to get drunk once a week, against 20% who think in 2003.

levels of binge drinking among youth were also significantly reduced. In 2010, only 17% of women aged 16 to 24 years, took more than six units in its heavy day's consumption, against 27% in 2005 and 24% of men drank more than eight units, as against 32% in 2005.

Measham, who advised the Government on alcohol policy, said: "The trends are clear from From around 2002, things have changed, I saw in my students and I I saw then. I do my research .. in bars and clubs Something is changing, cultural change, and there is no desire to go out and get completely erased is also the case of drugs - use .. peaked in 2002 and has produced a slow decline

  • "Each generation wants to be different from the previous one. The 1990s saw the cafes, bars and pubs to be dominated by men. Women beverage industry were taken in the specific glamor
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  • drinking cosmopolitan style, and "me time" and drink with the girls and There was a revolution in consumer habits. But this generation is all a bit old fashioned and accountable. Increasingly, the older generation is a bad example and adolescents are quite dismissive of it.
"A trend I see is that students spend more than once, instead of going out all the time. When I am researching the clubs, youth will have to pay considerable sums to enter, but do not see huge queues at the bar Another factor is that the worst excesses of the beverage industry has been limited by legislation - .. free drinks and happy hours and promoting irresponsible drinking "

The beverage industry, you declare a sharp drop in sales of alcopops, retains a role in the decline. "We are seeing encouraging national trends," said Henry Ashworth, executive director of the Portman Group, which promotes social responsibility in the beverage industry. "But there are distinct regional variations, as in the north-east, where consumption patterns are at odds with the national situation.


beverage manufacturers' and retailers have implemented voluntary and community associations alcohol, which are aimed at preventing underage drinking, which are supported by education campaigns and information to educate the public. these and other voluntary initiatives play an important role in helping to develop this changing relationship with alcohol. "

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