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Although portrait doesn't exist marks the teenager to risk of mesusage of the alcohol, some attitudes constitute factors of risk. Better to know allows them to warn some dangers better. Small inventory of these attitudes that must awaken the attention of the parents and the professionals of health. Conducted in state of drunkenness, violence verbal, physical or uncontrolled, take sexual risk. are as many conducts to risk encouraged by an abusive consumption of alcohol. How to warn to best these drifts? What are the signs that can alert?. Some elements of answer. The reasons of the consumption of alcohol The reasons of the consumption of alcohol at the teenagers are multiple. One can clear a few big tendencies nevertheless: .The research of his own limits As the Dr Batel specifies it, chief of the service of addictologie of the Beaujon hospital in Clichy "the teenagers search for their limits. The use of products psychotropics allows them to feel them and often to find them." To discover the entirety of this interview, appointment on our article "Yes to an intelligent prevention!"; .The worry of integration by the group of equals In their investigation "The alcohol in feast: Manners to drink of the new youth étudiante", sociologists Jacqueline Freyssinet-Dominjon and Anne-Catherine Wagner estimate as well as "Drink is before a whole festive act. It is the first norm and most important in the studying population" The function of the alcohol is before all social. One especially sees it in the group by the fact feeling in the same state that his equals. The festive consumption of the weekend is an example of it; .The refusal to grow "All teenagers are potentially topics to risk facing the alcohol, only defer their faculties to manage it and their environment" specified doctor Robert Bres thus in the report "The alcohol and the young: of the behaviors to risk" initiated by the health insurance and the national institute of prevention and education in health (Inpes) in the year 2000. For him, the alcoolisation of the young results from a refusal to grow. Tormented by the big questions of adolescence (arrived in the world of the adults, to find his place in the social life, etc.), they see in the alcohol an excellent means to implore them. But if most teenagers can adopt this kind of behavior, some attitudes can prefigure an abusive consumption of alcohol. The factors of abusive consumption risks: In 2003, the national institute of health and the medical research (Inserm) presented some of his factors of risks thus .The tendency to search for some sensations to fight against the boredom, in particular thanks to various substances psychoactives. This research of sensations is frequently associated to unrests of the control of the impulses, and notably of the access of rage, to conducts of pathological game, to a kleptomania; .A certain pain-being, of bad relations with their parents, of the violent behaviors, a school failure, of the running away or the attempts of suicide is associated to abusive consumptions more often of alcohol; .The precocious consumption of alcohol: the alcoholisms having started before the age of 20 years are reputed sterner; they touch the individuals having domestic antecedents more, more of unrest of the behavior during the childhood. They want to drink and a bigger variability of the mood; .A certain "resistance to the alcohol": the teenagers who "hold the alcohol" well have a bigger risk to develop an abusive use. This resistance can have a genetic part as the follow-ups of children of alcoholics show it; .A precocious pubertal development could be a factor of risk of alcoolodependance. Although one cannot raise a portrait marks some teenagers to risk opposite the alcohol, the alliance of all or several of these factors can alert the setting and the physicians as for the utility of a prevention gait.
What attitude for the parents?
What attitude do the parents have to adopt? According to the Dr Bres, "The only duty of the adults is the one to persist to be there. It is not about explaining to the teenager what he lives or makes, what he should make or to be, but rather to imply it in what is played for him, that is to say the development of his own history . Maybe it is good to remind to the teenager the pleasure that to be adult has, including while mastering his consumption of alcool". 2009-02-04
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