Critical Evaluation of Development Project on Alcohol Addiction among Teenagers

Running head: CRITICAL EVALUATION OF DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
CRITICAL EVALUATION OF DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
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Introduction:
Alcohol addiction among the teens is exponentially growing day-by-day. The alcoholism
is a disease which is due to the alcohol dependence (Lewis, 2015). Now-a-days it is frequently
observed that, majority of the underage individual starts drinking alcohol which leads to short
term such as, deteriorated perception of emotion, hearing, vision and co-ordination and long term
effects such as, memory loss, vitamin deficiency and heart and liver damage. According to
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2019), 6.8% of the total female and 9.1% of the
males of age between twelve and seventeen consumes alcohol above the limit. The primary
reason behind the excessive consumption of alcohol is the peer pressure, curiosity and for fun.
Critical analysis:
Critical analysis is demarcated as careful examination of the project in order to evaluate
the positive and negative aspect of the project (Morse, 2015). This essay focusses on the critical
evaluation of the development project which explains the reason behind the excessive
consumption of alcohol among the teenagers. In addition to that, the project also involves the
data of the research that has been conducted to evaluate the percentage of teenage consuming
alcohol. In the development project the strategies that helps to reduce the alcohol abuse among
the teenagers.
In the study, the signs and symptoms of the alcohol abuse is has been discussed which are
alteration in attitude of the individual, depression, conflict with friend and family and more
expenditure. In order to develop strategies to the alcohol abuse among the children, it is
important to acknowledge the reason behind the alcohol abuse. In the development project, only
few reason are stated, which includes, peer pressure, for fun and due to curiosity. However, there

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are other reasons also which leads to over consumption of alcohol among the teenagers which
includes, such as social exclusion, family issue, relationship issue which are not mentioned in the
development project.
Before conducting a development project regarding any issue such as alcoholism in this
case, it is important to conduct a primary and secondary research regarding the issue in order to
determine the severity of the issue which is done in this development project. In the development
project, the primary and secondary research has been conducted to evaluate the population of
teenagers who are addicted to the alcohol.
In the development project, different strategy that can be implemented by the local
government, community, health and police in order to reduce the amount of teenagers who are
addicted to the alcohol. Before suggesting the strategies, the most common drug related issue,
which leads to have negative impact on the community safety has been included in the essay
which includes, street drinking, access to the support and treatment services and public
drunkenness (Gmel, Holmes & Studer, 2016).
The strategies that can be used by the stakeholders group to reduce the consumption of
alcohol are as follows:
By local government:
1st strategy:
In the development project, the strategies which should be implemented by the local
government to reduce alcohol consumption among the teenagers are the implementation of the
policy fir the management of alcohol. With the help of policy, only the adult individuals were