Binge drinkers are more likely to have a beer can in hand than a shot glass, new research shows.
Binge drinking teenagers are still at risk of absent-mindedness and forgetfulness days later, a study says.
A 15-year-old boy was today convicted of kicking and stamping to death a young woman in a park because she was dressed as a Goth. Brendan Harris attacked Sophie Lancaster, 20, when she begged him and four other youths to stop beating her boyfriend, art student Robert Maltby.
It's the alcohol, of course, which makes wine not just tricky but potentially hazardous. Nonetheless, I would like to teach my sons — 16 and 17 — that wine is a wonderful part of a meal.
SPORTING clubs could lose government funding if they don't co-operate with a plan by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to counter what he calls an epidemic of binge drinking among young Australians. Announcing a $53 million national strategy to deal with alcohol abuse, Mr Rudd blamed a …
LONDON: Changing Britain's drinking laws by letting pubs stay open later has failed to curb binge drinking, government officials acknowledged Tuesday.
The urge to binge mindlessly, though it can strike at any time, seems to stir in the collective unconscious during the last weeks of winter.
The urge to binge mindlessly, though it can strike at any time, seems to stir in the collective unconscious during the last weeks of winter.
The dynamics of bingeing may have more to do with personal and cultural expectations than with the number of upside-down margaritas consumed.
More than two decades after the country established a uniform drinking age of 21, a nascent movement is afoot to allow 18- to 20-year-olds to legally buy alcohol under some circumstances.
THE scourge of alcohol abuse across Australia is far worse than previously thought, with one in five 16- and 17-year-olds now binge-drinking in any given week and nearly 500,000 children living at risk of exposure to an adult drinking at harmful levels.
MANDATORY price rises for alcohol to counter binge drinking moved a step closer yesterday as supermarkets agreed to talks with ministers. It reveals the pressure faced by supermarkets, convenience stores and pubs as governments at Holyrood and Westminster respond to calls from d …
Rennes, like many European towns, has seen a serious increase in binge drinking among young people in recent years. And aficionados of getting as drunk as fast as possible seem to congregate on "Rue de La Soif" .
A report from the Office for National Statistics published yesterday shows that 8,758 people died from excessive alcohol intake in 2006, twice the number in 1991.
The dangers of excessive consumption of alcohol were revealed in two official reports yesterday, identifying health risks for captains of industry downing bottles of wine after work and a social crisis among children getting drunk on cheap booze from the corner shop.
Drinking to get drunk is starting at a young age, in England and Wales, prompting children not yet into their teens to become involved in violence, vandalism and sexual risk, according to a study published today.
some words of caution for those who continue to binge and even for those who have stopped: just as the news is not so great for former cigarette smokers, there is equally bad news for recovering binge-drinkers who have achieved a sobriety that has lasted years.
NEW Year's Eve tends to be the day of the year with the most binge drinking (based on drunken driving fatalities), followed closely by Super Bowl Sunday. Likewise, colleges have come to expect that the most alcohol-filled day of their students' lives is their 21st birthday.
NEW Year's Eve tends to be the day of the year with the most binge drinking (based on drunken driving fatalities), followed closely by Super Bowl Sunday. Likewise, colleges have come to expect that the most alcohol-filled day of their students' lives is their 21st birthday.
Seasonal triggers sometimes result in relapse for those in recovery. Web based forums and other novel approaches now provide critical help for those in need.
Last January in Freehold Township, N.J., a car driven by a 17-year-old high school student, with two fellow students as passengers, passed a car being driven by another teenager at 70 miles an hour in a 50-mile zone. The passing vehicle crashed into an oncoming van.
A British Olympic runner says she suffered physically and mentally after volunteering for a two-week binge-drinking study.
TWO out of three Australian women binge drink and one third indulge in massively boozy nights where they down more than 11 drinks in a sitting, a survey has found. Results of the Australian Women's Health magazine's online survey of more than 2000 women found two-thirds of r …
VICTORIA has the fastest-growing rate of alcohol-related hospital admissions in Australia, sparking renewed calls for action on binge drinking. Research figures released to The Age show admissions caused by alcohol consumption increased by almost 70% in the last decade — more …
Children as young as five are to get lessons on the dangers of alcohol in an attempt to tackle Britain's growing binge-drinking epidemic.