Top 10 Issues Facing Our Youth Today
Now that we are well into the new Millennium, society has begun to recognize serious concerns with issues that kids have to deal with today. Some issues have always been there but are now coming to the eyes of the public to find solutions. Other issues are new trends as society begins to adapt to a faster pace of life. Below are the top 10 issues facing our youth today
Now that we are well into the new Millennium, society has begun to recognize serious concerns with issues that kids have to deal with today. Some issues have always been there but are now coming to the eyes of the public to find solutions. Other issues are new trends as society begins to adapt to a faster pace of life. Below are the top 10 issues facing our youth today
What are the biggest issues facing young people?
On International Youth Day, let us know what you think should be top of the agenda: jobs? contraception? education? hunger? ending conflict?
On International Youth Day, let us know what you think should be top of the agenda: jobs? contraception? education? hunger? ending conflict?
Spain moves on youth binge drinking
The Spanish government intends to prevent the drinking of alcohol in the street and ban the sale of alcoholic drinks to the under 18s. Over recent years a fashion, known in Spanish as el bottelón, has developed among teenagers which consists of spending Friday and Saturday nights drinking in the streets and plazas. The government's hope is to reduce alcohol misuse among Spanish young people and to stamp out el botellón..
See PAU "Bing Drinking"
The Spanish government intends to prevent the drinking of alcohol in the street and ban the sale of alcoholic drinks to the under 18s. Over recent years a fashion, known in Spanish as el bottelón, has developed among teenagers which consists of spending Friday and Saturday nights drinking in the streets and plazas. The government's hope is to reduce alcohol misuse among Spanish young people and to stamp out el botellón..
See PAU "Bing Drinking"
Is Spain an “alcoholic society”?
DRINKING HABITS (Luz Sánchez-Mellado, El País)
Report says social acceptance of drinking makes it difficult to educate people about abuse Spaniards’ alcohol use comes in at twice the global average and higher than Europe’s
DRINKING HABITS (Luz Sánchez-Mellado, El País)
Report says social acceptance of drinking makes it difficult to educate people about abuse Spaniards’ alcohol use comes in at twice the global average and higher than Europe’s
Attitudes to alcohol in Europe (BBC NEWS)
Teenage drinking is a problem across Europe
The number of people in their late teens and early 20s being treated for alcohol-related illnesses is growing. Is the problem as serious in other European countries and what do they do to reduce the incidence of binge drinking?
Teenage drinking is a problem across Europe
The number of people in their late teens and early 20s being treated for alcohol-related illnesses is growing. Is the problem as serious in other European countries and what do they do to reduce the incidence of binge drinking?
Alcohol disease 'hits young hard' By Branwen Jeffreys
Health correspondent, BBC News
"More women and young people are developing health problems."
Teenage drinkers
Doctors are seeing rising numbers of patients in their late teens and early 20s with severe alcohol-related disease, many of them women.
Health correspondent, BBC News
"More women and young people are developing health problems."
Teenage drinkers
Doctors are seeing rising numbers of patients in their late teens and early 20s with severe alcohol-related disease, many of them women.
Alcohol: Tips for safer drinking By Dr Jonathan Mitchell
Consultant hepatologist
Deaths from alcohol related liver disease are rising rapidly in the UK.
Consultant hepatologist
Deaths from alcohol related liver disease are rising rapidly in the UK.