A&E Is Full Of Drunks Nowadays!
Particularly at weekends.
Now there is a surprise.
Is it any wonder that our Hospital A&E departments are literally falling apart due to drunkards of ALL ages who appear to just want to go out on the town to get hissed nowadays.
I have always enjoyed a few beers, but my god, I can honestly say that I had nothing on the way things are today.
And I NEVER ended up in A&E either!
Are there any answers to this?
I don't know.
You tell me!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-increase.html
Alcohol-related hospital admissions up 64% in just 10 years - and teenage GIRLS are worse than boys
Females aged 15 to 19 were treated in hospital 1.4 times more than boys
Damning report follows a decade of warnings on round-the-clock drinking
Authors say even this is a massive underestimation of the true problem
Admissions 'indirectly' related to drinking, such as falls, aren't recorded
Figures also exclude emergency patients discharged on the same day
But experts have condemned the (24 hour licensing) changes, and many have called for a return to traditional licensing laws.
In a separate article today, Dr Clifford Mann, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, says that the pattern of drunkenness has ‘changed significantly in the past ten years’.
Writing in the Emergency Medicine Journal, he says that instead of drinking until a set time, young people ‘preload’ on cheap drinks before drinking late into the evening in pubs and clubs.
The consequence is a much greater ‘alcohol load’ and a much greater risk of injury and mental health damage, he writes.
He adds that since the 2005 relaxation of the law ‘accident and emergency departments in the UK have seen ever greater numbers of patients whose presentations are linked to acute or chronic alcohol ingestion’.