Alcohol is flooding our health system

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Here’s a lovely article that I read with interest, then dismay: Drunk callouts swamp ambos. Did you know that Western Australia’s stretched ambulance crews are treating ten drunks a day?! I find this and other figures sobering. What a pity other people don’t! Lie of the land In WA, more than seven teenagers a week…

Sweet Sixteen & Utterly Pissed

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16-year-old Sophie* attends a gathering at a friend’s house at 4 pm.  Sophie drinks a bottle of vodka while the host parents party elsewhere on the property – not caring what’s happening in their home.  Sophie passes out. Her eyes roll back. Her breathing becomes laboured. Her friends become distressed and wonder if they should…