In North Rhine-Westphalia, fewer children and young people were treated in hospital for acute alcohol poisoning last year than in 2021. 2,355 young people between the ages of ten and 19 were admitted to hospital because of alcohol-related behavioral disorders – 5.5 percent fewer than in the previous year. the state statistics office IT.NRW reported on Thursday. Almost half of the adolescents – 1,135 people – were female adolescents. If you look at the particularly young people affected, there were 349 children between the ages of ten and 14.
According to IT.NRW, the downward trend observed since 2017 continued. In 2020, when the restrictions caused by the corona pandemic began, the number of children and young people treated in hospital for alcohol-related behavioral disorders fell particularly sharply compared to 2019, at 38.7 percent.
The decline in alcohol-related treatment cases among young people in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2022 was somewhat greater for boys and young men than for their female peers: for male adolescents the decline was 5.9 percent and for female adolescents it was 5.0 percent.
Ten to 19-year-old patients made up a national average of 0.14 percent of their entire age group. Regionally, the proportion was highest in the Soest district at 0.30 percent, followed by the Coesfeld district (0.23 percent) and the city of Bonn (0.21 percent). The statisticians found the lowest rates for Leverkusen, the Rhein-Kreis-Neuss and Cologne at 0.06 percent each.
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