“Alcohol disease ‘hits young hard’” but do they care?
Doctors are seeing patients in their late teens and early twenties with severe alcohol-related disease.More than a hundred specialists from around the UK have told the BBC of their concerns in response to a questionnaire.They said their hospital wards are being filled by a growing number of young people, particularly women.
BBC NEWS | Health | Alcohol disease ‘hits young hard’.
Well, this is not news to me, surely everyone knows that alcohol is deadly and that our young are drinking far too much of it?
The question is, what can we do about – I think that encouraging 24–hour drinking doesn’t help - and a significant dose of additional taxation would probably quell people’s appetites for booze 