Girls increasingly drink more and more into a coma

More girls end up in the clinic

16/12/2013

The number of young people by the so-called „Binge drinking“ hospitalized in 2012 has reached a new record. Never before have so many cases been recorded since the beginning of data collection in 2000. It is striking that there has been a significant increase among girls. According to the Federal Statistical Office, 26,673 boys and girls had to be admitted to hospital in the current year because of a complete noise. This is an increase of 1.2 percent, the highest value in 12 years. In particular, the increase of five percent among young girls and women is cause for concern.

For the boys, however, there was only an increase of 0.8 percent. Three-quarters of the girls and young women admitted were still minors. Compared to 2011, it is three percent more. According to the data analysis of the Techniker Krankenkasse (TK) for the state of Bavaria, more than 2,000 young people between the ages of 15 and 25 had to be admitted to a clinic in 2012 due to excessive alcohol consumption. Compared to 2009, this is an increase of even 10 percent. TC spokeswoman Kathrin Heydebreck explained that it is just at public festivals and so-called flatrate parties, where adolescents can drink unlimited alcohol for a fixed amount, increasingly comes to emergency medical operations. She sees as one possible cause in this behavior, the drinking habits of mothers and fathers within families. „If father and mother drop the wine every evening, this is a bad example for the children, because they find the consumption of alcohol something normal.“In the case of the children, the behavior of the parents reduces the inhibition threshold to let them run completely to the point of being unconscious and it becomes a completely wrong picture of „To be an adult“ mediated. „Earlier it was quickly said 'He just has to sleep off his drunkenness'.“ Most children and adolescents only pass once that they are admitted to the hospital in a breather. The health insurance companies have to spend about 1.2 million euros annually for inpatient disillusionment.

Positive figures of the drug report 2012 do not overestimate
In the light of the data, you should not say good-bye to the positive figures of this year's Federal Government Drug Report. In May, she had announced that the number of adolescent drinkers had decreased and the age at which adolescents first came into contact with alcohol has increased by a few months. Overall, a downward trend in the number of young potheaders and drinkers since 2003 can be seen. But why the group of „binge drinkers“ a steady increase, the experts can not answer.

Federal government relies on regional campaigns
Efforts by the federal government, such as restricting the sales time for alcohol, provide drug experts with a good way to curb excessive drinking among young people. "Such approaches are right, young people often buy at night at the gas station," said the Managing Director of the Lower Saxony State Agency for Addiction, Manfred Rabes, in Hannover. But that alone is far from enough. There must be more prevention campaigns in cooperation with private youth welfare organizations to effectively address the problem. For the protection of children and adolescents in Lower Saxony, we focus on targeted preventive measures designed to prevent risky alcohol consumption, "Minister Rundt said.

Social workers of the project "Halt" (hard on the limit) address young people after alcohol poisoning in the hospital and encourage them to participate in group seminars. Even for young people who have not had any experience with the so-called coma running, there are seminars. With the workshop "Party without Stress and Alcohol", the Hannover Region wants to encourage young people to use alcohol responsibly. But in addition to the programs, according to drug experts and the structures must be changed, because in the European comparison, Germany has the lowest alcohol prices. (Fr)