Age at first drink, a new study

emeraldkity4
Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:43:13 +0000

*I know I read about a Scottish doctor who saved a premature baby by feeding it whiskey. *

I stopped premature contractions by drinking whiskey, ( or maybe it was rum- I was at my inlaws), but I have never heard of giving it to the infant- however I knew that they used to treat premature labor with an alcohol drip- I was also getting weekly progesterone shots which also relaxes smooth muscle.

I tend to think it is genetic predisposition but combined with environment.
I had my first drink at 15 , ( Mickey’s malt liquor, I weighed about 95 lbs, I was pretty loopy on one) and by the time I was 21, I had all but stopped drinking.

However, my H has more alcohol use in his family background and he had to go through treatment to stop drinking. ( I have no idea how old he was for his first drink)

They drink a bit.

And George Hamilton likes a bit of color.

The National Alcohol Strategy 2006-2009 was developed as a response to the patterns of high risk alcohol consumption that are prevalent in Australia. Each year approximately 3,100 people die as a result of excessive alcohol consumption and around 72,000 people are hospitalised. With the annual cost to the Australian community of alcohol-related social problems estimated to be $7.6 billion.