Children's alcoholism in our time, unfortunately, has become a common problem, which doctors talk about. Talk about child alcoholism can be if symptoms of alcoholism manifest before the child reaches adulthood. Childhood alcoholism refers to very difficult problems.
For the first time experts spoke of this problem in Russia in the 1990s. Since then, this social problem is progressing: according to the data, the number of adolescents and children who regularly consume alcohol has tripled in the last ten years. To narcologists, for rendering necessary help children of 12, 14 and 15 years with the diagnosis children's alcoholism get. Some teenagers to alcoholism led regular use of beer. Struggling against drug addiction, the "green serpent" withdrew to the last plane and was forgotten. And as a result of its victims are girls and boys.
Those people who advertise alcoholic beverages can be congratulated, as it turns out, sales of cocktails and beer have grown significantly and continue to grow, and the main buyer is the youth, whose average age is 10-14 years. It's such an age when a child has a desire to appear more mature. But the most horrible thing is that for most teenagers it's no longer "cool" to drink, so they sniff glue or smoke "dope" for a full "buzz". What to do with children-alcoholics in our country have not yet decided. If adults are fined, put in a sobering-up center, then a special program is needed for children. The doctors already recorded cases of white fever in adolescents. The number of crimes that teenagers commit while being drunk is constantly growing.
The reasons that contribute to the development of alcohol dependence in young people in fact a lot:
- Birth and finding a child in a family of alcoholics (most often).
- Time of formation of the child as a person. Drinking alcoholic beverages during this period is in the role of confrontation with various problems and self-affirmation in school and family.
- Recently, the cause of the development of alcohol dependence among young people is TV and the media. Marketing clips that promote beer, helped lift the prohibitions on drinking teenagers this drink, which led to rapid addiction and the development of beer dependence.
Children's alcoholism, unlike an adult, has some distinctive features:
- Because of the anatomical and physiological structure of the child's body, they quickly become accustomed to alcoholic beverages.
- Malignant course of the disease. The child's organism is in a stage of formation, therefore stability of the central psyche to influence of alcohol is lowered, as a result there are fundamental processes of its destruction which can not be turned back.
- The use of hot drinks in large doses. This happens because adults do not approve of alcohol consumption by children, so they consume alcohol secretly and most often the whole dose at once and without snacks.
- Low cure efficiency.
- Rapid becoming of drunken drunkenness. In this case, drinking alcohol for any reason for young people becomes the norm, moreover, to the state of heavy intoxication, because in a state of easy intoxication, young people feel insecure.
To cure children's alcoholism, unfortunately, is rather difficult. It is difficult due to the fact that the child's personality has not yet been formed and effective important motivations that would help in treatment, the child does not. The treatment of alcoholic children is carried out in a special hospital (children suffering from alcoholism are treated separately from adult alcoholics). To achieve the desired result, the consent of both parents is required, if there are no parents, then the consent of the guardians. Employees of a children's room of law-enforcement bodies are periodically involved.
With such a problem as children's alcoholism must be fought now, because childhood alcoholism is not able to dictate the future. And it is better to entrust the curing of children's alcoholism to experts and then it is quite possible to cope with this problem.