A new study reveals that British women are among the biggest binge drinkers in Europe, raising concerns about alcohol abuse.
British women have come close to the top of a new Europe an 'binge-drinking league', sparking concern that warnings about alcohol health harms are being ignored. Current NHS guidelines recommend no more than six drinks per week — with this amount spread out over seven days. Yet a quarter of women in the UK admitted to regularly consuming this much or more in a single session — defined as 'heavy episodic drinking' in a new report.
Only Danish women were more likely to hit the bottle, the research from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) showed. While 45 per cent of British men admitted to regular booze sessions, they came fifth in the league behind Romania, Denmark, Finland and Luxembourg. This meant the UK ranked third, overall, in the boozer list. Even more worryingly, among uner-15s, British teenage girls were found to be out-drinking almost all of their European peers. A shocking one in ten (12 per cent) of 13-year-old girls in the UK confessed to having been drunk 'at least twice' — despite the legal drinking age being 18. Only Bulgarian young women fared worse, with 14 per cent claiming to have to have gone on a binge. By comparison, nine per cent of British boys the same age said the same. Meanwhile, three per cent of 11-year-old boys and two per cent of girls the same age admitted to boozing. Adolescents who drink heavily are less likely to do well in school, and more likely to develop alcohol dependence later in life, studies have shown. Commenting on the findings, experts warned that drinks firms were 'heavily targeting' young women, in particular, with adverts that 'present alcohol consumption as a feminine practice'. The study looked at adult drinking habits in 38 countries, and found adults in Turkey drank the least, with just one per cent of women and five per cent of men regularly bingein
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