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SOUTH AFRICA: Teenagers’ Health at Tremendous Risk
MAY 5, 2010 BY EDITORS
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS
Kristin Palitza
CAPE TOWN , May 5� (IPS)� – ”I sometimes drink alcohol because it makes things funny,” said 15-year-old Senelo* giggles shyly. ”I go to unlicensed taverns. They sell alcohol without asking questions.”
The petite, pretty teenager from Mfuleni township 35 kilometres outside of Cape Town is far from being an exception. Thirty-five percent of South African adolescents say they drink alcohol, and 29 percent binge drink."
SOUTH AFRICA: Teenagers’ Health at Tremendous Risk
MAY 5, 2010 BY EDITORS
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS
Kristin Palitza
CAPE TOWN , May 5� (IPS)� – ”I sometimes drink alcohol because it makes things funny,” said 15-year-old Senelo* giggles shyly. ”I go to unlicensed taverns. They sell alcohol without asking questions.”
The petite, pretty teenager from Mfuleni township 35 kilometres outside of Cape Town is far from being an exception. Thirty-five percent of South African adolescents say they drink alcohol, and 29 percent binge drink."
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