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Alcohol: younger people's favourite substance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Sue Bailey  and
Richard Williams
Sue Bailey
Affiliation:
University of Central Lancashire, UK London, UK, email ntattersall@bstmht.nhs.uk
Richard Williams
Affiliation:
University of Glamorgan, UK Gwent Healthcare National Health Service Trust, email rjwwilli@glam.ac.uk
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On 10 January 2006, ITV2, a UK television channel, ran a 90-minute programme called Britain's Youngest Boozers. It claimed that one in three younger people are binge drinkers and that one in six is dependent on alcohol. The comments in interviews with adolescents and families were stark and worrying. Although the age parameters were not clear at the start of the programme, it focused on those aged up to 25 years and presented enormously serious concerns about the changed patterns of drinking among Britain's younger people.

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Thematic paper - Alcohol misuse among young people
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International Psychiatry , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , April 2006 , pp. 29 - 32
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 2006

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