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A new study has proved that low cost alcohol can trigger harmful underage drinking.
Mark Bellis, who conducted the research with a team from Liverpool John Moores University and Trading Standards, conducted the survey on allcohol consumption patterns, drink types consumed, drinking locations, methods of access and harms encountered, in teenagers.
"Regretted sex after drinking, having been involved in violence when drunk, consuming alcohol in public places and forgetting things after drinking had all been experienced by relatively large proportions of teen drinkers," says Bellis.
"For children who drink alcohol we did not find any typical drinking patterns where children were at no risk of harms. Accessing alcohol through parents did not remove the risks of alcohol related harms but was associated with lower levels of risk."
19.9% of the teenagers, who were given alcohol by the parents once in a week, were found to be involved in incidents of accidents. This increased to 35.9% in teenagers who had access to alcohol from other sources.
The researchers found a strong relationship between consumption of cheaper alcohol products and increased proportions of respondents reporting violence when drunk, alcohol related regretted sex and drinking in public places, says a Liverpool release.
Using large cider bottles for alcohol consumptions seems to have relationship with drinking in public areas like streets and outside shops.
These findings were published in the open access journal BMC Public Health.
