{"id":35201,"date":"2012-10-11T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=35201"},"modified":"2021-05-09T20:38:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T01:38:02","slug":"changes-in-alcohol-use-improves-in-teens-worsens-in-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/changes-in-alcohol-use-improves-in-teens-worsens-in-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes in Alcohol Use Improves in Teens, Worsens in Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t

Source:<\/strong>\u00a0Rick Ruggles, “‘Good, bad, ugly’ in alcohol report,” Omaha World-Herald, 11 October 2012<\/p>\n

The good news is that alcohol use is declining among teenagers. Nationally alcohol use within the preceding 30 days declined from 51% in 1991 to 39% in 2012. Binge drinking, defined as having several drinks in one sitting, in the preceding 30 days also declined from 31% in 1991 to 22% in 2012.<\/p>\n

The bad news is that alcohol use among adults has increased slightly. Nationally binge drinking by adults in the last 30 days was 14.8% in 1999 and is now 15% in 2010.<\/p>\n

The numbers continue to show that teenagers are less able to use restraint with addictive products.<\/p>\n

“Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation. For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ<\/em>” (I Thessalonians 5:6-9).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source:\u00a0Rick Ruggles, “‘Good, bad, ugly’ in alcohol report,” Omaha World-Herald, 11 October 2012 The good news is that alcohol use is declining among teenagers. Nationally alcohol use within the preceding 30 days declined from 51% in 1991 to 39% in 2012. Binge drinking, defined as having several drinks in one sitting, in the preceding 30…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42],"tags":[371],"class_list":["post-35201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issues","tag-alcohol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36020,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/adolescent-alcohol-use\/","url_meta":{"origin":35201,"position":0},"title":"Adolescent Alcohol Use","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"November 29, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Source:\u00a0David Murphey, et al., \"Alcohol Use,\" Adolescent Health Highlight, Child Trends, Publication 2012-34, November 2012. Though continuing a downward trend, alcohol use remains a problem among teenagers despite the fact that the minimum drinking age is 21 throughout the United States. 40% of high school seniors, 27% of high school\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Issues"","block_context":{"text":"Issues","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/issues\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":35427,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/no-safe-level-of-alcohol-consumption\/","url_meta":{"origin":35201,"position":1},"title":"No Safe Level of Alcohol Consumption","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"May 29, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Source: Anya Topiwala, \"No safe level of alcohol consumption for brain health: observational cohort study of 25,378 UK Biobank participants,\" medRxiv, 12 May 2021. \"No safe dose of alcohol for the brain was found. Moderate consumption is associated with more widespread adverse effects on the brain than previously recognised. Individuals\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Issues"","block_context":{"text":"Issues","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/issues\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":35032,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/drunk-driving-down-among-teens\/","url_meta":{"origin":35201,"position":2},"title":"Drunk Driving Down Among Teens","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"October 3, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Source: \"Drunken Driving Down,\" Omaha World-Herald, 3 October 2012 It is nice to have some good news once in a while. \"In 2011, 10 percent of high school students reported drinking and driving, compared with 22 percent in 1991.\" More notable is that this change is attributed in part to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Issues"","block_context":{"text":"Issues","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/issues\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":57486,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/challenges-for-the-year\/","url_meta":{"origin":35201,"position":3},"title":"Challenges for the Year","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 1, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jeffrey W. Hamilton Text: Romans 1:28-32 \u00a0 I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Toward the end of each year, people tend to review the year and record the trends that are evident \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019ve been collecting several articles in the last few months dealing with moral trends \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0B.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We are not of the world, but we must\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Audio"","block_context":{"text":"Audio","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/audio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":47178,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/leaving-the-pit\/","url_meta":{"origin":35201,"position":4},"title":"Leaving the Pit","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"February 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"by Wilson Adams It was the most compelling argument I've ever heard against social drinking... 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