{"id":1590,"date":"2023-08-14T17:23:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T17:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2023-08-14T17:23:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T17:23:19","slug":"volta-region-tops-the-chart-drinking-alcohol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/2023\/08\/14\/volta-region-tops-the-chart-drinking-alcohol\/","title":{"rendered":"Volta Region tops the chart -Drinking Alcohol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alcohol is gradually becoming a menace to the youth in the society. Decades back, the availability of alcohol was very scarce unlike today that alcohol can be seen in almost every corner making it very easy for everyone to access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alcohol is slowly becoming an addiction to many youths in the country. Many lives have been destroyed, marriages broken, rape cases escalated due to the intake of alcohol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Children also take in alcohol due to the easy availability of the drink. Many alcoholic shops do not care about the ages buying but their concern is to make profit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to research conducted by a TV3 journalist, 23% of Ghanaians are addicted to alcohol with the ages ranging from 15-34. Volta Region tops the chart with 42% followed by Upper West 37%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcohol is gradually becoming a menace to the youth in the society. Decades back, the availability of alcohol was very scarce unlike today that alcohol can be seen in almost every corner making it very easy for everyone to access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-latest","category-lifestyle","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}