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Addiction danger for child drinkers

Children who start drinking before 14 are more likely to become dependent on alcohol in later life, doctors warned yesterday.

Drinking in the early teens also puts men and women at greater risk of developing dependency more quickly and younger, researchers found.

Almost half of those who started consuming alcohol before 14 became reliant on it at some point.

This compared with nine per cent of those who began drinking after 21, the U.S. study found.

Those who started drinking as young teenagers were also more likely to become alcohol-dependent before they were 25.

And they were more than three times at risk of having two or more episodes of alcohol dependency in their lifetime, scientists at the Boston University School of Public Health and Youth Alcohol Prevention Centre found.

Dependency is defined as alcoholism or development of problems because of regular drinking. Reliancy periods can last months or years. Lead researcher Dr Ralph Hingson said: 'In general, each additional year earlier than 21 that a respondent began to drink, the greater the odds that he or she would develop alcohol dependence at some point in life.

'Our analysis suggests that interventions that delay drinking onset may not only reduce the acute consequences of drinking among youth but may help reduce alcohol dependence among adolescents and adults.'

The team studied more than 43,000 adults in a national survey. Its findings add to mounting research warning that alcohol causes more damage to the developing brains of teenagers than once thought.

The most alarming evidence, from a previous study, showed bingeing on alcohol can seriously damage parts of the brain that regulate learning and memory.

Dr Ting-Kai Li, director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, said: 'This work underscores the need for research to clarify how early drinking relates to the risk of lifetime alcohol problems. In particular, it is important to learn whether early alcohol use may affect the developing brain in ways that increase vulnerability to dependence.'

Aaron White, assistant professor of psychiatry at Duke University North Carolina, said: 'There is no doubt about it now. There are long-term cognitive consequences to excessive drinking of alcohol in adolescence.

'We definitely didn't know five or ten years ago that alcohol affected the teen brain differently. Now there's a sense of urgency.'

Figures released last week revealed that Britain's binge-drinking culture is claiming an increasing number of lives.

In the last five years, there has been a 37 per cent rise in drinkers dying from alcoholic liver disease - while hospital admissions for the condition have doubled in a decade.

The statistics emerged in a report that also warns of worrying levels of abuse among children. A recent survey found a quarter of secondary school pupils between 11 and 15 had had a drink the previous week.