Binge drinking
Brits Abroad: Our behaviour has to change
As the number of Brits who died abroad has increased by 4 per cent, it’s time to reconsider how we behave on holiday.
By Josh Barrie | Notebook, Opinion | Monday, 6 August 2012 at 3:00 am
Drunkorexia: A stupid name, but a serious problem
“Eatin’s Cheatin’” echoes around the office on a Friday afternoon as women pick over their naked salads and extra extra light low fat Philly on Ryvita. The preparations for ‘Rosé o’clock’ are well under way. They’ll grumble their way through the afternoon and suppress the urge to be ‘naughty’ whenever anyone offers a biscuit, sweet or chocolate.
By Ilona Burton | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Monday, 9 July 2012 at 10:00 am
Teen girls drink like the rest of us – to forget
It’s official, Britain’s teenage girls are the biggest binge drinkers in Europe. It’s not new research but the fact that this evidence has been included in the Department of Health’s submission to the House of Commons Health Select Committee inquiry shows that it is still a problem and that politicians are still worried about it.
By Richard Darlington | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Monday, 2 July 2012 at 5:34 pm
The Debate: Are Cambridge students any more vile than your average British student?
Cambridge students are having trouble keeping out of the press recently. Urinating in parks, spitting on working-class people and revealing their behinds in libraries – and that’s just this month. But is this all just normal university behaviour, or is Cambridge subject to penalisation in the press due to its prestigious position?
By Laura Davis | Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 30 May 2012 at 4:00 am
Scotland’s 50p alcohol tax: Battling health with money
Scotland has elevated far beyond Theresa May’s 40p proclamation then, with an impetus to enforce a minimum 50p per unit levy on alcohol prices. Nicola Sturgeon’s arguments are less annoying than Theresa’s at least; if we were to hear yet another tirade of ‘pre-loading’ nonsense I fear for my health for entirely different reasons.
By Josh Barrie | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 16 May 2012 at 10:29 am
Increasing alcohol prices will only make “pre-loading” more appealing
I’m imagine David Cameron would have had more than five pints of lager on a night out with his Bullingdon Club friends while at university. Drinking more than five pints, by the way, is deemed ‘binge drinking.’
By Josh Barrie | Notebook, Opinion | Monday, 26 March 2012 at 2:54 pm
Time for a new approach to alcohol
Ambulances were called and three drunk teenagers were brought to my care. One was so drunk we had to suction out the vomit from her mouth to stop her choking to death. Another girl wet herself and then proceeded to vomit on the floor and hurl abuse at the staff. The third was so unconscious we ended up having to take over their breathing and taking them for a CT scan of their head to check that they hadn’t had a head injury. Why on why does this happen so regularly?
By Nick Edwards | Health, Notebook | Wednesday, 15 February 2012 at 9:59 am
We should stop panicking about Boozy Britain
Here’s what everybody knows about Boozy Britain. As a nation we are drinking twice as much as we did sixty years ago. The double whammy of cheaper booze and 24 hour drinking has led to an epidemic of alcohol abuse which threatens to overwhelm the NHS. Alcohol-related hospital admissions have doubled in less than a decade and now stand at over one million per annum. Millions of us put our health in jeopardy by drinking more than the daily alcohol limits.
By Chris Snowdon | Battle of Ideas, Health | Tuesday, 15 November 2011 at 5:00 am
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