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Now I’m no Drinking expert, however I’ve drank some excellent liqour like an expert. In the islands drinking at a young age is considered a “Rite of passage” I had my first sip at 13 – wasn’t a fan at first however, as the years an the bottle went I discovered a taste a unmatched by anthing esle…

As for the behavioural problems I can’t relate to that. I was often to drunk and horny as a field mouse chasing girls to scare up any kind of problems (Hey maybe that could be seen as a problem, but not for ME…). Just to let you know with all the girl chasing, and my excellent drinking ability I still never got any lovin though.

Now to the story at hand; recently The Online Journal Of Child And Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health (a heck load of “and’s” huh?)  released the research findings of a Survey conducted by The Norwegian University Of Science And Technology (NTNU). During their research they claim to have uncovered a link between behavioural problems and Adolesecent drinking – Ah, Surprising Huh!

Any how the study was based on a survey of 9000 Norwegian teenagers aged 13 -19 years ( Frankly, I’m more surprised by them being able to get 9000 teeneagers to particapate than the link to behavioural problems, what were they giving out -FREE Ipods or something?).

The study states that 80% of the teenagers had tried alcohol, while 29% claimed to have been drunk more than 10 times in their lives (80% huh, now that’s larger number than I’d expected – a nation of drinkers WOW!).

Those who claimed to have been drunk 10 times or more (mainly guys), also reported more behavioural misconduct unbecoming of a human being ( You know what I mean, the pissing contest us guys subject ourselves to and the unlucky bastard on the recieving end, vomiting, yelling, grabing girls in inappropriate places, aggressiveness – Hey it happens!).

Now of the teens surveyed, girls between 13 -16 were considered high risk for developing alcohol abuse, not because their girls(don’t want you thinking these Norwegian researchers are sloveniest pigs)  - there is a prerequisite (anxiety symptoms)…so keep an eye out for anxiety symptoms(that peer pressure is a bitch man!)…

Now here’s the “Achilles heel” in the research, Drinking is only a Link, not the Cause of behavioural problems…Even scientist can’t blame alcohol on such issues.

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