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Alcohol is one of the worst public health problems in Europe after tobacco and high blood pressure, has a greater impact than obesity, lack of exercise or illicit drugs.
Five to nine million children were living in families damaged by alcohol and the 10,000 deaths that occur to bystanders or passengers from drink-drivers.
But although the figures show that UK citizens are among the worst binge drinkers in Europe, drinking levels per person (13 litres of pure alcohol per year) are just under the EU average of 15 litres of pure alcohol per year.
Research published by the health charity DPP: Developing Patient Partnerships found that 24% of Britons sometimes drink just to “get drunk”.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the figure is even higher in young people with 59% of 18-24 year olds and 43% of 25-34 year olds drinking to get drunk.
Full story here.
@Mr Amphibian wrote:
And, your point is Owen?
Selective curtailment of civil liberty.
@Mr Amphibian wrote:
@Ow£n Ka$h wrote:
@Mr Amphibian wrote:
And, your point is Owen?
Selective curtailment of civil liberty.
Quite agree. They should ALL be banned. Alcohol F’s people up just as much as other drugs, if not worse, and it’s LEGAL!
Prohibition?
@Mr Amphibian wrote:So let’s make everything else legal and it’ll be OK. :roll:
And how would you tackle the drug culture?
@Mr Amphibian wrote:Keep going for the links to support your POV Owen, It’s what you’re known for. :wink:
You’re free to post as many links as you please to support your case. You should try it, if you can find any. :lol:
You speak as though the existing policy on drugs is working, when it patently isn’t!
You criticise and condemn, but offer no solutions.
I cannot debate with you if you persist in your negative stance.
I’m beginning to think you’re a bit of a tosser! :wink:Is this Current Affairs & Serious Posts, or have I woken up in Chat Forum 1? :roll:
@pete wrote:
teetotalers dont live as lomg as people who drink sensibly.. thats statistically true… people who develop beer muscles should be emasculated though …vile people
And long term abuse of drugs will kill you prematurely?
@pete wrote:
short term drug abuse can kill you prematurely it has nothing to do with the substance and everything to do with the will or lack of it by the taker
Jimi Hendrix (27), Janis Joplin (27), Elvis Presley (42), and Kurt Cobain (drug-related suicide at 27).
So we continue to allow pushers to control the drug supply, rather than allowing the government to provide it to existing addicts for free?
Talk sense ffs! :roll:
@tommy-toxen wrote:
@Ow£n Ka$h wrote:
@pete wrote:
short term drug abuse can kill you prematurely it has nothing to do with the substance and everything to do with the will or lack of it by the taker
Jimi Hendrix (27), Janis Joplin (27), Elvis Presley (42), and Kurt Cobain (drug-related suicide at 27).
So we continue to allow pushers to control the drug supply, rather than allowing the government to provide it to existing addicts for free?
Talk sense ffs! :roll:
i explained to him, on the other thread, owen, that all the people he mentioned were irresponsible. i like pete, he’s an intelligent bloke, but he seems to stick responsible, recreational users in with the idiots who abuse them (like the ones he mentioned)
i can’t see any harm in regulating the industry rather than handing it over to organized crime
I don’t consider Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin or Kurt Cobain as idiots who abuse drugs.
The jury’s still out regarding Elvis. :lol:All the people Pete mentioned weren’t pushing drugs to my children, burgling my house, breaking into my car or mugging my mother.
He talks out of his ass, and until he takes the blinkers off, he always will! :roll:
Presumptious Pete? :roll:
I don’t take addictive drugs, I do care about young people and the risk of them being exposed to addictive drugs.
I don’t know where your coming from Pete, but it sounds like planet peanut!
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