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Talk about alcohol

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Teaching about alcohol

What are their concerns?

Young people are often very concerned about how their behaviour compares to that of their peers and what their peers think of them.

  • Only half (51%) agreed they ‘would feel confident about saying no to drinking alcohol if offered by friends’.
  • Almost a third (28%) agreed that ‘if your friends decided to drink alcohol it would be difficult not to join in’.

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22% of accidental deaths are alcohol related.

Sources: NHS confederation briefing 2010 and NHS statistics on England 09 and DCSF Children, Young People and Alcohol consultation 2009
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