22-12-2015, 08:53 PM
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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’.
22-12-2015, 09:27 PM
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Re: A&E Is Full Of Drunks Nowadays!
Originally Posted by Muddy
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I thought the 24 hour drinking licencing was the most idiotic thing I have ever heard of.Anyone with even a grain of common sense could see how things would end up.
That coupled with allowing supermarkets to sell alcohol.
Crazy.
22-12-2015, 10:31 PM
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Re: A&E Is Full Of Drunks Nowadays!
A&E departments have plenty of drunks every night of the week, they just increase at this time of the year for obvious reasons, then there's the suicide attempts, it can be a sad time for many who are lonely or going through a bad time and feel they have no one to turn to for help22-12-2015, 10:40 PM
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Re: A&E Is Full Of Drunks Nowadays!
Originally Posted by Honey
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A&E departments have plenty of drunks every night of the week, they just increase at this time of the year for obvious reasons, then there's the suicide attempts, it can be a sad time for many who are lonely or going through a bad time and feel they have no one to turn to for help
But unfortunately I feel that they are left behind in the slipstream of the ones who booze even before they go out for the evening, and then booze a lot more.
So much so that they end up in A&E due to being sick, getting into fights, and falling over and injuring themselves.
It is these people of whatever age, who are playing a part in the destruction of our what was once our wonderful NHS.
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