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Alcohol: younger people's favourite substance
Sue Bailey1, Richard Williams2
1Professor of Child and Adolescent Forensic Mental Health, University of Central Lancashire, UK, and Registrar of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, London, UK, email ntattersall@bstmht.nhs.uk.
Abstract:
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.