Friday 25th November
1) Roll-call
Richard - Present
Andrew - Present
Sean - present
2) We discussed the how to target the parent part of out campaign.
We identified that one problem is that parents do not want to be lectured therefore our task is to try to make parents pro-active in seeking out information. Our idea is to create a TV ad which will aim to encourage parents to read our pamphlets / website/ parent group presentations on children and alcohol.
For the website we would consider an advice package which could be ordered.
The TV adverts would aim to worry parents about teenagers and alcohol. The slogan would be Is your daughter/son safe tonight?
For girls we considered an advert depicting:
- Drowning
- Rape
- Passing out/ dying
For guys we considered and advert depicting:
- Drowning
- Passing out/ dying
- Drink driving
- Getting run over
- Fighting
The pamphlet/ website would be divided into parents with children falling into 3 age groups
- Under 11 y.o.
- 11-14 y.o.
- 15-18 y.o.
Under 11's
- Frank discussion
- Not just say no when asked if they can try alcohol but explain why
- Show good drinking ethics / Habits
- Don't always drink
- Don't get drunk
11-14
- Okay to have a drink with meals if they ask (watered wine etc.)
15-18
- Be approachable
- Call you if they need help
- Know where your child is but don't be spying on them
- Curfew & pick the up from parties (find out form the parents whose house the parties is being help in)
- Make sure you know where their going
Meeting ended 11:20
Richards Research
Richards Research
History of Alcohol Prohibition
In 1920, the national policy of Prohibition began. The 18th Amendment to the Constitution had been officially ratified:
It sought, by law, to make the whole Nation into enforced teetotallers and to put an end to all evils associated with drinking. It sought to eradicate a taste deeply rooted in the habits and customs of a large part of the population through outlawing the business that ministered to its satisfaction (Hu, 1950: 48).
1650-1750: THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS
In fact, it started earlier. "Ministers shall not give themselves to excess in drinking, or riot, or spending their time idellye day or night," ruled the Virginia Colonial Assembly in 1629 (Cherrington, 1920:16).
Massachusetts ordered that no person shall remain in any tavern "longer than necessary occasions" in 1637, while Plymouth Colony in 1633 prohibited the sale of spirits "more than 2 pence worth to anyone but strangers just arrived" (Cherrington, 1920: 18).
This sampling of the earliest colonial laws is representative of the attempt, continued since those times, to control excessive consumption. Excessive drinking, it was considered, produced behaviour unseemly in some, such as ministers, and dangerous in others, such as Indians.
But drinking per se was not frowned upon. Indeed, when the Puritans set sail to Massachusetts, they had taken care to carry with them 42 tons of beer (in contrast with 14 tons of water) and 10,000 gallons of wine (Lee, 1963: 15).
The regulation of liquor consumption was a matter of considerable concern in certain colonies. Thus, for a time, Massachusetts went so far as to prohibit the drinking of healths in 1638 (Lee, 1963: 19). The law was soon abandoned for reasons obvious, albeit unrecorded. It rapidly became clear, however, that liquor laws could do more and perhaps better, than control consumption: they could provide a source of revenue. By the turn of the 18th century, the regulatory impulse was concentrated on fines, excise taxes and license fees.
Fines were imposed for drunken behavior, unlawful sales to a drunken tippler or to Indians, and for selling without a license. Court records indicate that these laws were enforced with reasonable regularity (Krout 1967: 29-30). Licenses often carried their own fees, and excise taxes were levied upon distilled spirits as well as beer and fermented drink in many cases.
Until the 18th century, however, there was no attempt to prohibit the manufacture, importation, sale, or consumption of alcoholic beverages. Quite the contrary, at least one individual-in some cases a reluctant individual-was required in many towns to run the local inn or public house for visitors and travelers.
Although colonial statutes made it clear that tipplers and idlers were unwelcome, the diary of a colonial traveler, Sarah Kemble Knight, suggests that such laws were unsuccessful in containing the ribaldry which took place in many such houses. Madam Knight complained:
Methods
Using self-reported alcohol consumption data collected repeatedly over 50 years (1948-2003) among 8,600 Framingham Heart Study participants to determine patterns of alcohol use and disorders according to sex, age and birth cohorts.
Results
Among drinkers, there was a decrease across succeeding birth cohorts in average alcohol intake: among individuals between ages 30 and 59, age-adjusted mean intake was 30.6, 25.5, and 21.0 g/day for those born in 1900-19, 1920-39, and 1940-59, in men (p< 0.001), and 14.2, 12.3 and 10.4 g/day in women (p< 0.001), respectively. In all birth cohorts, proportion of abstinence increased and average consumption among drinkers decreased with age. Furthermore, proportion of moderate use was higher but heavy use was lower in the younger birth cohorts than in the older cohorts. The proportion of alcohol from beer decreased and that from wine increased with age for all cohorts. Among the two earlier birth cohorts, the cumulative incidence of an alcohol use disorder from age 40 to 79 was much higher in men (12.8%) than in women (3.8%); it tended to be slightly higher among subjects born after 1920 than among those born 1900-1919.
Conclusions
What was found was a decrease in average intake and more wine consumption over the more than 50 years of follow up. The cumulative incidence of alcohol use disorders, however, did not show a decrease
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