Binge-Drinking in the UK High, Especially Among Young Girls
Posted under Binge Drinking on Sunday, January 15th, 2012
Among binge drinkers in the UK, young girls are being treated for binge drinking more often than boys. In a recent online article, it is highlighted that doctors are reportedly treating 2,400 less boys than girls in hospitals for alcohol-related incidents.
A higher number of teenage girls are being taken to the hospital with symptoms of binge drinking than are boys. Nearly 550 girls are ending up in the hospital, due to binge drinking, on a monthly basis compared to 450 boys, reported the Department of Health. And according to the UK’s public health minister, in the first eight months of last year, an estimated 8,000 young adults were treated by physicians for problems relating to alcohol.
The country is currently considering changes to the cost of alcohol in pubs, clubs and shops. This fierce approach to curb binge drinking will cost drinkers about $700 million a year. Who knows if that will stop the tragic statistics that show more than 25-percent of girls, aged 16 to 17, in the UK admitted to drinking to make themselves happy. In 15-year-old girls, the numbers show at least half have been drunk twice which is almost twice the average compared to other developed countries.
UK is a part of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. This organization, which includes Europe and North America, showed that Britain had the highest percentage of 13-year-old girls to have been intoxicated at least two times in their lives(one in three).
