30/9/2010 00:00:00
Familial drinking in Italy: Harmful or protective factors? An article on the results of a study on the relationship between cultural models and patterns of consumption of alcoholic beverages, has been published in Addiction Research & Theory.The sudy was realized by Lee Strunin of Boston University, in collaboration with Pierluigi Ascani and Luca Parisi of Format Research and Enrico Tempesta and Simona Anav of the Permanent Observatory on Youth and Alcohol and analyzed 80 adolescents aged between 16 and 18 and 80 adults ages between 25 and 35, living in two Italian regions – Umbria and Abruzzo – very different in consumption quality and quantity. In fact, in Umbria there are high per-capita consumption but low percentages of alcohol abusers or addicted, while in Abruzzo there are lower quantities consumed but a much higher number of problem drinkers.
