Excessive Alcohol and Risky Pregnancy Linked
Excessive Alcohol and Risky Pregnancy Linked

The Royal College of Physicians report revealed that alcohol is giving birth to risk of unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections. A majority of youngsters who come to sexual health clinic have confessed for going overboard after being drunk.

Excessive alcohol and sex has become a sort of cocktail for teenage pregnancies and sexual transmitted infections. Teenagers who came to sexual health clinics for contraception, after-morning pills or to undergo tests for pregnancy and infection revealed about their drinking pattern.

Girls between the 14 and 15 years confessed before doctors that they crossed their limits after being drunk and if they would not have been that drunk then such incident would have never happened. However, those between 15 and 30 said they excessively drink so they could have sexual activities.

This kind of behavior has fueled pandemic of risky sex and contraction of infection among teenagers. Yearly, more than one million teenagers come to sexual health clinics to get contraceptive pills, the morning-after pill and to go through tests in order to confirm they are not infected with any sexual transmitted disease.

Seeing such a rise in the number of teenagers coming to clinics led the RCP's doctors to ask sexual health clinic GPs to know their drinking pattern. So they could warn them about harms of going overboard.

Dr. Simon Barton, who is the Chairman of the RCP's Alcohol and Sexual Health Working Party, said it is a recent phenomenon that alcohol and sex have been interlinked. But sexual health services could bring decline in it by informing teenagers about probable risks involved in excessive drinking.

"Although services that aim to tackle this problem cannot be effective in isolation, there is a real opportunity for sexual health services to support people both in identifying their behavioural risks and in empowering them to take action", said he.

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