Pediatrician fights against alcohol in teenagers: “I want to clean up the mess, but you Belgians don’t give me a chance”

Did your teenager drink his first glass of beer or wine last Christmas or New Year’s and you turned a blind eye to it? Then know that he or she is up to six times more likely to drink a lot later. Pediatrician Nico van der Lely knows this, because hundreds of drunken children – the youngest only 10 – have passed through his hands. “I hardly saw them before. Now six people die from it every year.” He talks about the consequences of alcohol at a young age that many parents are not yet aware of.

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