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Line them up and Sophie, Laura and Sara are almost identical: all short skirts, bare, orange-tinged legs, smokily made-up eyes and long, dark hair that sees a straightening iron every day. Just out of school, they tell me that their grade was a volatile one. One girl had sex with a guy during schoolies week only to find him in bed with two of her friends an hour later. One friend has become a chronic weed smoker and can barely leave the house. And each of the three has had their own share of troubles. Now studying health science and nursing, Laura hopes one day to open a nursing home.
Sophie, short and subtly stout, is one of five children — including one with a disability — and has had to shoulder more responsibilities at home than many girls her age. Her first dalliance with drugs, at 17, involved a cocktail of marijuana, ecstasy and amyl nitrite.
Waking up not knowing where you are is not unusual. With its concentrated areas of hedonism, the city has always been a magnet for teens — whether coming over the bridge, in from the west or along New South Head Road.
These days, venues go in and out of fashion as photos circulate on Facebook and the pack converges on the next new bar. Fifteen- to year-olds have the highest rate of hospital admissions for drunkenness of any age group; by the age of 18, one in three teens is drinking at a high-risk level compared to one in 10 two decades ago.
For young women, the risk of being admitted to hospital with alcohol-related liver disease has steadily increased in the past decade. Paul Dillon, former spokesman for the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre and author of Teenagers, Alcohol and Drugs , last year visited the hospital bed of a year-old Melbourne woman dying of alcohol-related liver cirrhosis. Eight times in the past year, Dillon has had to change the physiological information he includes in the talks he gives at schools as more is learnt about the impact of alcohol on the vulnerable, developing teenage brain.
Five reasons to join a GLBTI sports club and where to find one
Once, he says, the common wisdom was that the greatest harm from alcohol came while people were drunk — judgment is impaired, the risk of accidents and sexual assaults is greater. The night I meet the girls at Cargo Bar, Laura ends up flirting with Tom, 18, a check-shirt-wearing north shore lad. Young Australian women are now more likely than their male counterparts to have had sex — more than 61 per cent of year 12 girls compared to 44 per cent of year 12 boys, according to a report published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health last year.
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