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A&E admissions soar for drinking teens
by Amber Elliott / 22 Jun 2012 11:59
The number of white British teens admitted to hospital for alcohol-related conditions has risen by 82% in the last decade.
The startling figure comes to light just one day after new research found alcohol-related injury and illness accounts for 14% of all A&E attendance.
Department of Health figures show young girls needing medical attention for drink has soared by 22% since 2002, compared to a rise of just 1.7% for boys.
One intervention won't fix a nation's drinking problem
by Jamie Bartlett / 15 Feb 2012 15:06
Ever since we discovered the joys of drinking alcohol, those who govern have worried we enjoy it too much. In the mid-tenth century, King Edgar introduced the first recorded law to curb drunkeness, which was followed by a thousand years of (usually failed) attempts to regulate when, where, and how much we drink.
It is something of an obsession for modern leaders too. David Cameron today re-declared war on the binge-drinkers. It is
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