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...Nottingham University engineering student estimates he'll down eight or nine pints before night's end. That's what he says he puts away in his thrice-weekly sessions, which start at a pub around 9 p.m. and end at a club five or six hours later. "We definitely drink more" in Britain, he says. "It's just the culture to get pissed, I guess." Outside, two young men square off drunkenly but stop when a police van glides by. Between midnight and 4 a.m., casualties stream into the Queen's Medical Center emergency department: a motionless clubber...
...drink affects more than just the drinkers. The government report estimated that alcohol-related disease or injury was responsible for 5 million emergency-room visits in England in 2000-01, up to 22,000 deaths in England and Wales in 2000 and health-care costs of about $3 billion. Around 70% of emergency-room patients in nhs hospitals on Friday and Saturday nights are treated for alcohol-related conditions. Hospitals in Cardiff and Swansea were so swamped by the intoxicated that in the weeks before Christmas they erected temporary military-style field hospitals in city centers to treat casualties...
...Recommended amount of water flyers should drink for every hour onboard a plane...
...It’s much better not to drink at all than to drink too much,” Stampfer said. According to Stampfer, there is evidence that even occasional excess drinking in young people can profoundly affect their cognitive health in later years and there is no evidence that they benefit from moderate drinking either...
There has been widespread, and justified, outrage over Prince Harry’s recent decision to attend a “Native and Colonial” party wearing a Nazi Afrika Corps uniform. The photograph of the oblivious Prince calmly holding a drink while sporting a blood-red, swastika-embellished armband has now become an icon of royal idiocy and cluelessness...