Posted on 03/03/2014 10:04:05 PM PST by Olog-hai
A third of intensive care beds at weekends are taken up by patients critically ill from alcohol, according to the NHS’s head of critical care.
Dr. Bob Winter said it had become socially acceptable for people to drink themselves into an “anesthetized state” on Friday and Saturday nights, and he also warned of the trend of “front-loading”—becoming intoxicated before going out.
The prices at supermarkets and off-licenses were so cheap it was possible to buy enough alcohol to “die from” with a £10 note, he added.
Dr. Winter called for an urgent change in the culture of drinking and said the Government needed to take responsibility for the problem by banning cheap booze. Official figures show that alcohol costs the NHS an estimated £2.7 billion a year, including £1 billion in A&E alone. …
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When they try to out-hippy the hippies, this is a bad situation.Drinking yourself into anesthetized state ‘is now socially acceptable’: NHS boss says intensive care swamped by alcohol cases
Critically ill from alcohol? I think I’ve been that way once in my life, and I don’t ever want to get that bad again. I felt like crap for 3 days afterward, and still felt the remnants of it for 2 more days.
Didn't England have problem before, when gin became cheap?
This isn't a solution, the addicts will change to home-made alcohol. Any kitchen is good enough for making it. I'd propose to bill those drunk intensity care patients for the care.
It’s a natural symptom of statism.
Back to back thoughts
quote fat,drunk and stupid is no way to go thru life.
Boones farm and 20/20- I didnot realize was available acoss the pond LOL
What are they angling at here? A 10,000% tax on alcohol ? So it seems.
Why are there only pictures of women? No article on heavy-drinking in the UK portrays drunken men.
The British have had the problem of drunken or dope high youth for quite some time. Just as we have in the states. They could try raising the drinking age, but the English like their warm pitchers of beer just as many Americans love and take pride in gun ownership. Deeply cultural and expected.
This is way, way better! Those pictures were too disgusting...
Pissing the night away
Pissing the night away
He drinks a whisky drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a lager drink
He drinks a cider drink
He sings the songs that remind him
Of the good times
He sings the songs that remind him
Of the better times
I get knocked down
But I get up again
If they ever gonna kick me down
I get knocked down
But I get up again
You’re never going to keep me down
What happens to a once- great nation when it’s politicians have sold it out to islamonazis and it’s citizens are only subjects without the means to defend their land ?
What I heard is that you’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. Believe me, I know the feeling.
I’ve heard it this way:
Tequila Stage 1: I’m rich.
Tequila Stage 2: I’m good-looking.
Tequila Stage 3: I’m bullet-proof.
Tequila Stage 4: I’m invisible.
Thanks to some bad examples set by society in general.
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