Binge drinking is commonly pushed to the youthful recklessness. Yet are also increasingly at Akoholgenuss adults overestimate. This showed the high numbers of people into an alcohol poisoning Hospital must be admitted, said the Federal Agency for (BZgA) on Friday in Cologne.
This number was not only in adolescents between ten and 20 years tripled from 9,500 in 2000 to 26 400 in 2009, almost. Also in the group of 40 - to 50-year-olds had the number at some 13,000 approximately 25,000 cases almost doubled. About 200 die every day in Germany People from the consequences of alcohol abuse.
Alcohol is the most widely used drug in Germany, explained BZgA Director Elisabeth Pott to the World No Drugs Day on Sunday. Dependence potential and health risks of young and old would trivialize. But alcohol is a cellular poison that almost all organs in Could harm the body. Especially among adolescents, the risk of permanent damage and a subsequent dependence on large, because their Bodies are still developing.
The BZgA puts the number of men from 18 to 65 years, in the Germany in risky drinking amounts of alcohol, to 9.5 million. Women should not be more than a small glass of beer and men no more than two drink small glasses of beer at a maximum of five days a week, it said. For Children fewer than 16 are drinking alcohol, forbidden by the Youth Protection Act.
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