9 year olds are being treated for alcoholism.

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	9 year olds are being treated for alcoholism.

EddieIsSteady

9-5-2009 5:57 PM

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9-5-2009 6:40 PM

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<H1 class="head">Scottish Rehab Treating Child Alcoholics as Young as 9 Years Old</H1></DIV></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,539068,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r2:c0.227371:b27104226:z0"><P><STRONG>Kids as young as 9 years old are being treated for alcohol abuse at a rehabilitation clinic in Scotland.</STRONG></p> <P>Staff at a center in Aberdeen have already helped six boozers under the age of 10 this year.</p> <P>Andrew Hall, chief executive of Alcohol Support, which runs Albyn House clinic in Aberdeen, said they had 38 under-16-year-olds currently registered at the clinic, with dozens more on the waiting list.</p> <P>And he believes the binge-drinking epidemic facing Scotland's youth is only going to get worse.</p> <P>"There is an increasing demand on our service from children aged 9 and up — it's a growing problem," he said. "At one stage this year we were treating six children under the age of 10.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,539068,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r2:c0.227371:b27104226:z0">"All the evidence shows that children are starting to drink earlier, they are drinking more and the results are getting worse — we now have kids dying of liver failure," he continued.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,539068,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r2:c0.227371:b27104226:z0">a lot of kids have self-esteem issues and use drinking as an escape</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0E0D555D-6F06-4C0B-8CAA-A6464D847B94/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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