{"id":2798,"date":"2009-07-19T16:48:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T15:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=2798"},"modified":"2009-07-19T16:48:15","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T15:48:15","slug":"working-teens-more-likely-to-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/07\/working-teens-more-likely-to-drink\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Teens More Likely to Drink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><span>A University of California study shows that teens who work more than 10 hours a week tend to consume\u00a0 alcohol more heavily than those who work fewer hours or not at all. According to the study of more than 6,500 adolescents, 24 percent of the teenagers who worked more than 10 hours said they drank heavily within the past year. On the other hand, fewer than 10 percent of the teens who worked less hours or not at all reported heavy drinking.<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><span>&#8220;One of the most consistent and troubling discoveries is that the more adolescents work, the more they drink&#8221;, said lead researcher Mallie Paschall. Paschall speculated that working more than 10 hours gives teens the added income to purchase alcohol. In addition, work relationships with older teens and adults who drink may lead them to believe that heavy drinking is socially acceptable.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><span>Source: Journal of Adolescent Health Jan 2004.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A University of California study shows that teens who work more than 10 hours a week tend to consume\u00a0 alcohol more heavily than those who work fewer hours or not at all. According to the study of more than 6,500 adolescents, 24 percent of the teenagers who worked more than 10 hours said they drank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}