Submitted by Livia Edegger on
Flavoured alcohol such as alcopops and jelly shots have become very popular among young adults. There are three types of alcopops on the market: malt-based flavoured beverages (i.e. 'Mike’s Hard Lemonade'), spirits-based premixed cocktails (i.e. Jack Daniel’s cocktails) and supersized alcopops (i.e. 'Four Loko' or 'Joose'). Supersized alcoholic beverages can contain the equivalent of four to five alcoholic drinks. A new study shows that teens that drink alcopops are six times more likely to have an alcoholic-related injury than those who do not consume these beverages. The study involved surveying over a thousand young people aged 13–20 who said that they had consumed at least one alcoholic drink in the month prior to the survey. Researchers also found that a combination of two or more of these flavoured drinks can be enough to cause injuries.