The present research was accomplished with the objective of evaluating the consumption of alcohol among the adolescents students in the age group from 13 to 19 years, of a municipal district of the north of Paraná. The information were obtained through an applied questionnaire in the schools of public and proven teaching of the municipal district of Apucarana-Paraná, with 976 students, being the data analyzed by the Epi-Info Program. The results show that 82,18% of the adolescents interviewed have already proved alcohol, 66,39% began the use between 8 and 14 years, 71,61% proved at home with their parents and 25% of the interviewees have already drank until stay intoxicated. Therefore, this research concluded that new strategies of internvention are necessery, envolving a multi professional work, which include health, education, public safety, sports and leisure, througth preventive actions of health, sistematized and constinuous strengthening, this, their relationships.
Adolescent; Alcohol Abuse; Incidence; Prevention
