The British Red Cross launched a campaign today to teach 11-16 year-olds how to handle medical emergencies which arise from excessive drinking.
"Life. Live it," is a British Red Cross campaign to help young people learn life-saving skills so they can cope better in an emergency, the medical aid organisation said in a statement today.
It said it launched the campaign in response to statistics which showed that one in seven 11-16 year-old Britons has been in an emergency situation as a result of a friend drinking too much alcohol.
The Red Cross found in a new study that in the past 12 months 12 per cent of 11-16 year olds have been left to cope with a drunken friend who was sick, injured or unconscious.
Half of these had to deal with someone who had passed out and a quarter had to cope with an injured friend who had been drunk and in a fight.
Young people do not have to deal with just alcohol-related injuries. Nearly nine in 10 have also had to cope in a crisis. Twenty seven per cent dealt with someone having an asthma attack, 33 per cent had to cope with a head injury victim, 18 per cent helped someone choking and nine percent deal with someone having an epileptic fit.
Source: The Irish Times, 13/09/2010
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