Researchers say that some youths in Australia use content labels on alcoholic beverages to help them maximize their alcohol intake, rather than to make safe and responsible decisions about drinking.
Medical News Today reported May 15 that researchers studied youth perceptions of standard drink labeling, how youth use the labels, and how the labels impact youth's alcohol consumption.
Sandra Jones from the Center for Health Initiatives at the University of Wollongong and colleagues said that Australian youth have a very high awareness of standard drink labels, which include information on alcohol strength. However, researchers found that young drinkers use the labels mostly to help guide them in finding the best "value" -- e.g. the most alcohol for least amount of money.
Previous research indicated that adults used the drink labels to enable safe-drinking behavior, Jones said. "This motivation is not evident in the consumption choices with young drinkers and might even be counter-productive," Jones said.
The findings were published online Jan. 14, 2009 in the journal Drug and Alcohol Review.
Study Says Drink Labels Help Youth Find Strongest Drink at Lowest Cost
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This is a good entry for your blog. It is right that every manufacturers should put content label on alcoholic beverages to help them maximize their alcohol intake, rather than to make safe and responsible decisions about drinking. I hope that taking drugs of young people may also reduce as this one. Knowing the signs of crystal meth abuse
or any kinds of drug abuse is important to control the increasing amount of young people that uses drugs.
I think it is a good study finding.the number of drinkers increasing by the day is obviously not caring much about the labels.But still there should be all specified in there.
EMR
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