Social and health aspects of alcohol use in adolescents

The theoretical part of this bachelor's diploma work refers about summarised knowledge from the period of adolescence and its difficulties maintained in human's identity finding. The importance of social group effects is also shown here as well as hazardous factors that lead to adolescents' alcohol abuse. This theoretical part defines health risks of alcohol abuse and emphasizes the importance of prevention. The empirical part brings summarised data that have been extracted from a questionnaire-survey among teenagers in the town of Příbram. The survey is focused on alcohol abusing, means of getting it, general knowledge of the health hazards and family relationships of respondents. Survey results show the alcohol abuse among the adolescents to be alarming. Each of respondents involved in the survey said that he or she has already had an experience with alcohol drinking. According to data extracted from the survey, the first experience with alcohol abusing appears at the age from 10 to 12. It mainly happens during a family occasions. Questions about frequency and regularity of alcohol drinking have also brought some surprising results. About 60 per cent of respondents do not drink alcohol regularly. That makes a difference from widely made surveys. These show an opposite trend