Girls drinking themselves sick

Sydney Morning Herald, 10 June 2008
The number of young women hospitalised after binge drinking has doubled in less than a decade, a new study shows. The report, to be published in the Australian And New Zealand Journal Of Public Health today, suggested there was an immediate need for public health interventions such as increased alcohol taxation. It found the rate of alcohol-induced hospital admissions for Victorian males and females aged between 16 and 24 had increased substantially over eight years. more...

There are some useful statistics to be found in this article along with suggestions for curbing alcohol consumption. While higher taxes and reduced advertising may have some effect, what needs to occur is for binge drinking to become as socially unacceptable as smoking and that is a lot harder to achieve.