What needs to be done about youth drinking?
10:01 AM Tuesday May 11, 2010
One of the highest-powered delegations ever to petition Parliament plans to speak out at the Beehive tomorrow in support of tougher drinking laws.
Three knights and two dames, including two former Governors-General, will be joined by three archbishops, leaders of the Maori and Pacific communities and sports icons in a call to raise the drinking age, raise alcohol prices and implement other recommendations from a recent Law Commission report.
They also want MPs to abandon their traditional "conscience vote" on liquor issues so the Law Commission's proposals can be implemented as a consistent package.
What needs to be done about youth drinking? Here is the latest selection of Your Views:
louise (New Zealand) |
11:37AM Tuesday, 11 May 2010
I think that more adults and teenagers who drink need to understand/realise and wake up to the fact that alcohol can kill when taken in large amounts and that if at any stage you are with an intociated person that the best thing that can be done is to call an ambulance so that they can be taken to hospital to have their stomach pumped. Letting them sleep it off is not an option for someone who is extremly drunk. If they are unconcious, or nearly there they need to be taken to hospital because they have alcohol poisoning and it could be fatal.
It is very sad for this young boy and sad that other kids stood around (as on close up last night) and kept giving him the bottle to drink even though he was barely unable to walk. Who was keeping an eye on these kids?
I can't imagine to think how I would feel knowing my son was stuid drunk and in great harm and I was a sleep in my bed 5 mins down the road. No one was helping these kids in the car park. Where were the adults? Why are we not looking after our youth as a society. I am sure plently of adults and the RSA saw these kids in the carpark.
This is a terrible tradgedy and somthing that didn't need to happen.
Leanne (New Zealand) |
11:38AM Tuesday, 11 May 2010
I applaud Dr Margaret Abercombie for public speaking out about young people abusing alchohol. We need more parents to publicly acknowledge the problem. Sincere condolescences to the family.
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Didn't the vodka which caused this tragedy come from a relatives liquor cabinet, how are the government going to stop that? I believe more education at school and home will surely have an impact on the younger generation but there are always going to be some that just don't listen and end up in trouble thats just the nature of humans.