HARTFORD - Police and hospital officials are asking parents to have a "blunt" discussion with their teens about drug and alcohol use after 46 people, many of whom were underage drinkers, had to be treated at area emergency departments last week during the first concert of the season at Xfinity Theatre, according to WFSB.
The scene has become a familiar one with thousands of teens and young adults illegally drinking to excess at the concert venue. Some underage drinkers are so ill from alcohol they are throwing up on themselves while on the ground, opening the door for choking on their own vomit, hospital officials said.
The concert venue and Hartford police have been plagued with underage drinking problems for the past seven or eight years, with city emergency rooms flooded with underage drinkers who are suffering from alcohol poisoning.
Last week, nearly four dozen were taken to the hospital during the first concert of the season, a hip hop act, that drew thousands, WFSB said. Ten of the underage drinkers wound up at Connecticut Children's Medical Center while others were taken to Hartford Hospital, St. Francis Hospital and other facilities outside of the city, Hartford police Lt. Paul Cicero said.
"We just want parents to be more cognizant at where their kids are going, what they're doing," Cicero told WFSB. "You have 20,000 people. There's a lot of peer pressure, a lot of friends and a lot going on."
One CCMC doctor put it another way; "I think one of the things parents can do the most is to be blunt about the discussion around alcohol and other substances," Dr. John Brancato said.
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