UK: More binge-drinking teenage girls now end up in hospital than boys

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More binge-drinking teenage girls now end up in hospital than boys


By Jenny Hope
Last updated at 3:56 AM on 23rd October 2010



The scourge of the 'ladette' has spread to girls as young as ten, shocking figures reveal today.

They show that females make up the majority of the soaring numbers of drunken youngsters needing hospital treatment. :

The levels have risen by a third in just five years, said the charity Alcohol Concern.
Its report said nearly a third more girls than boys have been admitted to hospital from A&E, with even young females drinking at higher levels like 'ladettes'.

Down and out: A woman lies on a bench after leaving a bar in Bristol City Centre. Females now make up the majority of soaring numbers of drunken youngsters needing hospital treatment


Every day, around 36 children are seen in casualty departments with alcohol-related illnesses, some as young as ten.

Last year, almost 13,000 alcohol-related admissions of young people under 18 were recorded, with 9,000 receiving treatment for dependency. That is double the rate five years ago.

Lower tolerance for alcohol among women compared with men accounts for some of the harmful effects but the rise in adult females drinking at higher levels is being reflected 'in the under-18s'.

Figures in the report from ambulance trusts for 2009-10 also indicate an alarming rise in young ladettes.

There were 11,780 alcohol-related call-outs in London for under-18s at a cost of more than £2.5million.


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[kittsyloves-U]

I'm curious, how many bevies constitutes a binge these days?

 

[chica25]

In the old days a case of 12. Now a 750 ml bottle of Stoli?.

 

[Monique]

From Wiki:

In the UK binge drinking is defined as drinking more than twice the daily limit, that is, drinking eight units or more. Most spirits sold in the UK have 40% abv or slightly less. A single pub measure of such a spirit contains one unit.

So, drinking more than 8 drinks in a day would be a binge.

However, in the USA, the term is often taken to mean consuming five or more drinks of spirits (male) in a two hour period of time.

So, having five or more glasses of single malt in 2 hours would be a binge. :

There is currently no world wide consensus on how many drinks constitute a "binge".
The modern definition is of drinking alcohol with the primary intention of becoming intoxicated by heavy consumption over a short period of time.

Since 1995 the UK government has advised that regular consumption of between three and four units a day for men and between two and three units a day for women would not pose significant health risks, but that consistently drinking four or more units a day (men) or three or more units a day (women) is not advisable.

Previously (from 1992 until 1995) the advice was that men should drink no more than 21 units per week, and women no more than 14. This was changed because a government study showed that many people were in effect "saving" up their units and "using" them at the end of the week, arty:a phenomenon referred to as binge drinking. The difference between sexes is given due to the (typically) lower weight and water-to-body-mass-ratio of women.