{"id":5690,"date":"2010-01-21T22:21:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T21:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=5690"},"modified":"2010-01-22T15:43:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T14:43:19","slug":"unemployment-%e2%80%98drives-youngsters-to-drugs%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2010\/01\/unemployment-%e2%80%98drives-youngsters-to-drugs%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment \u2018drives youngsters to drugs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">A new study suggests that young people without jobs often have the risk of poor health throughout their lives, with one out of ten blaming drug or alcohol addiction on unemployment.<br \/>\nThe Prince\u2019s Trust survey of more than 2,000 unemployed people aged between 16 and 25 also found that they could receive \u201cpermanent psychological scars\u201d due to constantly feeling ashamed, rejected and unloved.<br \/>\nNearly one out of four jobless youngsters believed their unemployed statues led to arguments between them and their parents or other family members.  Almost the same number of people exercised less and blamed unemployment for an unhealthy lifestyle, while 15percent said their life had no direction.  One in three youngsters without a job felt low or depressed and one out of 10 felt almost no one loved them.<br \/>\n\u201cUnemployment has a knock-on effect on a young person\u2019s self-esteem, their emotional stability and overall wellbeing. The longer the period a young person is unemployed for, the more likely they are to experience this psychological scarring,\u201d the Daily Express quoted economist Professor David Blanchflower, as saying in the report.  \u201cThis means an unhappy and debilitated generation of young people who &#8211; as a result &#8211; becomes decreasingly likely to find work in the future,\u201d he added.  \u201cThe implications of youth unemployment stretch beyond the dole queue. The emotional effects on young people are profound, long-term and can become irreversible. We must act now to prevent a lost generation of young people before it is too late,\u201d Martina Milburn, chief executive of the Prince\u2019s Trust, said.<br \/>\nShe added: \u201cYoung people bore the brunt of the recession last year, with one in five 16-to-24 year olds out of work today. The result is a generation of undiscovered skills and talents. We must invest in these young people, re-building their self-esteem, to ensure that today\u2019s unemployed do not become tomorrow\u2019s unemployable.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>Source:  http:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/health\/2010\/01\/04<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study suggests that young people without jobs often have the risk of poor health throughout their lives, with one out of ten blaming drug or alcohol addiction on unemployment. The Prince\u2019s Trust survey of more than 2,000 unemployed people aged between 16 and 25 also found that they could receive \u201cpermanent psychological scars\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5690","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=5690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}