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© 1990 Medical Council on Alcohol

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YOUNG PEOPLE AND DRINKING: RESULTS OF AN ENGLISH NATIONAL SURVEY

MARTIN PLANT, GELLISSE BAGNALL, JEAN FOSTER* and JILL SALES

Alcohol Research Group, Department of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh Scotland, U.K.

Received 1 June 1989; first review notified 30 October 1989; accepted 25 July 1990

An account is presented of a survey of self-reported drinking habits and beliefs about alcohol amongst a national sample of teenagers in England. Fieldwork was conducted during 1988 and 1989 and involved 27 systematically selected state secondary (high) schools. Respondents were virtually all aged 14–16. The majority of teenagers reported drinking only moderate amounts of alcohol. Even so, a third of the males and nearly a fifth of the females reported having at some time consumed the equivalent of five and a half pints of beer on a single occasion. Factual knowledge about alcohol was not high and more than half of the study group supported a reduction in the legal minimum age at which alcohol may be purchased in licensed premises.


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