Alcohol Use in Adolescents

This article focuses on the influence of the family environment on the beginning of adolescent drinking. Many studies determine which family factors have the greatest impact on use. The first point of discussion is parenting, including parent's use, family socio-economic status, cultural norms, and differences, including the overall parent's attitude toward drinking. This study found out how the characteristics and customs of a particular family affect drinking during adolescence.

As people who become alcohol eventually try to use alcohol during puberty, researchers have long been interested in factors influencing the start of alcohol use during puberty. Studies by adolescent twins and their parents' Dutch families showed that drinking behavior of children is influenced primarily by genetic and environmental factors other than parental drinking (Wright, 1998). Children with alcohol abuse are not affected by alcohol use disorders, but family history of alcohol abuse is a recognized risk factor for alcohol dependence onset. There are some differences between children with alcoholism and those without family history of alcohol abuse.

Over the years, many researchers have spent time and energy researching puberty alcoholism. They discovered that there are many factors that cause young people to drink alcohol. These factors are psychological, environmental, social and cultural. Not all of these factors are involved in all alcohol abusers, but one of these factors usually exists. Psychological barriers have been found among young people who abuse alcohol in the US and Taiwan. Health risks due to drinking in adolescence are very high. Alcohol influences the physiology of young people

Alcohol is the best medicine for adolescence. As with depression, the prevalence of alcohol use has also increased in adolescence. The use and abuse of alcohol continues to occur and issues related to the use of alcohol often occur long before being diagnosed as addiction. Drinking in adolescence is a major public health problem, and the relationship between drinking in adolescence and various adverse outcomes is almost the same as depression. There are contradictory findings on the relationship between family socioeconomic status and youth's alcoholism. There are reports that teenagers living in SES's high families report more frequent use of alcohol. Several authors have reported that there is no clear link between SES and drinking. Several authors have reported that the use of drinking by young people is more common in low SES households than in high SES households (Lemstra et al., 2008).