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Prevention campaign is to protect teenagers from coma drinking

01/02/2013

Drinking booze is very popular with many young people. As can be seen from the provisional figures of the statistical office for nine federal states, the number of „binge drinkers“ At the age of 10 to 20 years, who were hospitalized in Saxon hospitals increased by 0.8 percent year on year. A total of 767 adolescents were hospitalized in Saxony because of heavy alcohol consumption.

In the nine federal states in 2011, a total of 21,400 adolescents were so badly drunk that they had to be cared for in a clinic. This corresponds to an increase of 1.7 percent compared to the previous year. The report presented the health insurance DAK-health on Friday in Hamburg.

prevention campaign „colorful against blue“ for binge drinking
The prevention campaign „colorful against blue“ The DAK Health was launched in 2010. Since then, more than 35,000 schoolchildren between the ages of 12 and 17 have been creating posters against the "drinking of booze" in adolescents. In addition to the campaign's national patron, Mechthild Dyckmans, Federal Government Drug Commissioner, numerous search experts, politicians and artists at federal, state and regional levels are supporting the campaign.

„We assume that the number of drunkards nationwide remains at a high level, even if there is a positive development in some federal states“, explains Herbert Rebscher, CEO of DAK-Gesundheit. „Therefore, a permanent education about the dangers of intoxication is important. As teens at „colorful instead of blue“ Show your own colors, the campaign is particularly successful and will continue now.“ (Sb)

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Picture: Gerd Altmann