{"id":2365,"date":"2017-04-12T11:46:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T01:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/?p=2365"},"modified":"2017-04-13T12:11:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T02:11:09","slug":"experts-message-to-parents-of-teens-the-best-policy-is-no-drinking-alcohol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/2017\/04\/12\/experts-message-to-parents-of-teens-the-best-policy-is-no-drinking-alcohol\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert&#8217;s message to parents of teens: &#8216;the best policy is no drinking alcohol&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"outer-wrap\">\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"content wrap grid\">\n<article class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"article__body\">\n<p>The Australian guidelines to reduce health risks from drinking alcohol also recommend that for young people under 18 no alcohol is the safest option.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Patton, who is an adolescent health expert at the University of Melbourne, accepts the majority of teens drink alcohol before the legal age they can buy it at 18.<\/p>\n<p>But he says below age 16, the strongest message parents should give is not to drink at all.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of teens between 16 or 18, who are already drinking, allowing a couple of drinks at home or at parties with strict parental supervision is acceptable, he says.<\/p>\n<p>However, teens who drink at parks or on beaches without supervision are more likely to develop problematic drinking, leading to a range of health and social concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Click the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/victoria\/experts-message-to-parents-of-teens-the-best-policy-is-no-drinking-alcohol-20170410-gvi073.html\">link <\/a>to read the whole article.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article in the Age Newspaper of 11th April by Professor Patton, who is an adolescent health expert at the University of Melbourne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,5270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2368,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions\/2368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}