FRIENDS AND OTHER ADULTS
Teenagers who drink are most likely to get their alcohol from Systembolaget. 37 per cent of ninth graders and 48 per cent of students in the 2nd year of upper secondary school who drink alcohol say that their most recent source of alcohol was a boy- or girlfriend, friends, or siblings. 24 per cent of ninth graders got their alcohol from an adult who bought it for them.
Cider’s good. It tastes like a soft drink and you don’t get totally plastered.
Michelle, aged 15, Örebro
FROM HOME
Some teenagers get their alcohol from their own parents. 12 per cent of ninth graders who have drunk alcohol say they had taken it from their parents without permission. Taking alcohol from parents without permission is more common amongst girls (15%) than boys (9%).
It’s more common, amongst upper secondary school students, for their parents to buy it for them, with almost one fifth of students in 2nd year upper secondary school saying that the last alcohol they drank came from their parents. 8 per cent say that they were given alcohol by, or took it without permission from a friend’s parents, and only 3 per cent had taken alcohol from their own parents without permission. Keep in mind that even if your child is approaching or has already had their 18th birthday, it’s still illegal to buy alcohol for them.
A lot of people pretend to be drunk because they don’t want to stand out from the crowd.
Max , aged 16, Gothenburg
SMUGGLED ALCOHOL
20 per cent of ninth graders and 32 per cent of 2nd year upper secondary school students have drunk smuggled alcohol. Some youngsters also buy alcohol through social media contacts – 15 per cent of ninth graders and 2nd year upper secondary school students obtained alcohol in this way over the past year. Smuggled alcohol is often cheap, which means the teenagers can buy even more of it.
TEENAGERS DON’T KNOW
30 per cent of ninth graders and 15 per cent of 2nd year upper secondary school students, stated that they don’t know where the alcohol they have gotten a hold of actually came from.