How to react to your teenager's first “binge”?
INTERVIEW – Holidays are an opportunity for young people to experiment, including alcohol. Guylaine Benech, a public health consultant, explains why parents can and should address the subject, as early as possible.
The summer holidays are here, and with them, the opportunity for new experiences for teenagers. Among them, alcohol consumption and its excesses, which make parents shudder. What are the real risks for young people who drink alcohol? What attitude should you adopt if your child comes home drunk? Guylaine Benech, public health consultant-trainer and author of Sa première cuit: manuel de prévention positive autour de l'alcool, gives his advice on how to tackle the problem.
LE FIGARO.- Why would adolescents be more vulnerable to the effects of alcohol?
Guylaine BENECH.- When a teenager consumes an alcoholic beverage, the ethanol it contains spreads, in a few minutes, directly into his or her brain and throughout his or her body. Since the organs of a teenager are smaller than those of an adult, and have not completed their final maturation, alcohol is particularly toxic to them. Neuroscience teaches us…
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