Uk Binge Drinking

TD CLASS = "main"> "A culture of intoxication" has taken hold in the UK, binge-drinking now the norm, according to research conducted in Manchester, which shows there is no more difference between men and women when it comes to decide to get drunk.

Criminologist Dr Fiona Measham and his team at Lancaster University conducted a survey of 351 people with an average age of 25 in the pubs of downtown Manchester and clubs.She said that people went for the express purpose of getting drunk.

"There's a new culture of intoxication from alcohol and illicit drugs in this country. People go out to get drunk and this determined drunkenness which is now the norm.

"What they drink - shots, alcopops and cocktails - has changed so you can drink faster and faster. The strength of some wines and beers has also risen 50 percent in the 10 recent years and we've gone from the spit and sawdust at a pub where he and chrome cocktail bars so they are pleasant environments for women and professional groups. "

His research revealed that there was no longer any difference between men and women when it came to decide to get drunk.

"The study confirmed intoxication apparently deliberate and determined with no significant gender difference in age statistically in their desired level of intoxication."

During the interview, the women drank an average of 5.7 units of alcohol men and 9.6 units - enough to be classified as "binge drinking" as defined in the United Kingdom for 6 Units women and 8 men.

With the real price of alcohol cheaper than in the 1970s and more liberal laws for licensing, Dr Measham said that people drink more than ever.

"The consequences of a decade of alcohol consumption has increased session are evident in increased admissions to accident and emergency facial injuries, liver disease, arrests related to alcohol and significant increase of young women involved in the incidents of alcohol-related violence, disorder, injuries and damage. "

When asked how they felt drunk on a scale of 1 to 5, men and women rated themselves at 1.8 at the beginning of the evening but both sexes is to achieve a rating of 3.8 stars 5 by the end of the night.

"We thought they all aim to 5 on 5 at the end of the night, but they showed a drunken controlled, what I call a controlled loss of control.

"They have strategies to go home safely and make sure they had enough money."
She said a consumer society increasingly, with its sophisticated marketing is to blame for binge-drinking and the deregulation of licensing laws.

"Increased consumption of alcohol session in the last 10 years must be understood in the context of an economy booming night that facilitates and encourages excessive consumption and drunkenness."

Dr. Measham is a nationally renowned researcher with more than 15 years of experience in the field of drugs and alcohol.
She has written articles on government policy on alcohol in the International Journal of Drug Policy and the annual conference of the British Society of Criminology.

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