Women binge drinking a week's alcohol in one night!!

[mc_squared]

Women binge drinking a week's alcohol in one night

 

By Lynne Wallis And Sophie Goodchild

Last updated at 9:54 AM on 14th November 2008

 

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Some young women are consuming more than a week's worth of alcohol units in a night, it emerged today, with one woman even claiming to have drunk 50 units in one night - the equivalent of seven bottles of wine.

And those who start drinking as young as 13 are more likely to become alcoholics, research also reveals.

 

The findings provide a shocking snapshot of how drinking is out of control among teenagers.

They also show that government surveys are seriously underestimating the scale of alcohol abuse.

 

 

Shocking snapshot: Some young women are drinking more than a week's worth of alcohol units in just one night

University of Manchester researchers based their study on the drinking habits of more than 200 girls aged between 16 and 24. All were patients at a sexual health clinic in the South-East.

 

More than a third were as young as 13 when they began drinking and three quarters drank five or more units on a typical night out but a significant minority drank more during one night than the 14-unit weekly limit.

 

This is significantly higher than the Health Survey for England report last year which found that fewer than 10 per cent of women drank six or more units on a heavy drinking night

The survey revealed nearly a third had passed out or vomited during the last month through alcohol consumption.

 

Report author Valerie McMunn said there was a direct link between the age of the first drink and excessive alcohol consumption. She also warned that doctors were failing to pick on the warning signs such as stomach complaints.

 

Ms McMunn said: 'The younger girls in the sample, the ones closest to age 16, were the ones who had started drinking earlier.

 

'There needs to be more awareness about the quantities being consumed by young women and the damage it's causing their health.

 

'We know young women lack confidence, and that the first one or two drinks at the start of an evening work for them, enabling them to relax and talk to people.

 

'The trouble is that for many of them, they just don't seem able then to stop.'

Drinking during happy hours made alcohol affordable for the women in the survey. Other tactics included buying cheap alcohol from shops through special deals or getting men to pay for their drinks.

 

Anecdotal evidence showed that alcohol affected the behaviour of the young women in a dramatic way.

 

Drinking wine and beer led to them taking more risks such as walking home alone, getting into a stranger's car or falling asleep on pavements en route home.

 

Only one in five respondents admitted worrying about their drinking and its negative effects on their health.

 

Yet a fifth expressed concern about the amount their parents drank.

[RedGirl76]

This didn't come from the Daily Male by any chance???

[Cobalt]

NOT ANOTHER MARK

[mc_squared]

This didn't come from the Daily Male by any chance???

 

Don't tell me you're one of them!!:stunned::rolleyes:

[RedGirl76]

One of what? :confused:

[mc_squared]

One of what? :confused:

 

The binge-drinkers, of course!!:P

[Space Cadet]

This didn't come from the Daily Male by any chance???

:laugh3: Well put.

 

The binge-drinkers, of course!!:P

Well I don't generally drink at all and I still find it rather sexist and offensive how they continuously single out women in all these articles.

[mc_squared]

:laugh3: Well put.

 

Well I don't generally drink at all and I still find it rather sexist and offensive .

 

I think you'll find the vast majority of the binge-drinking women are offensive.:smug:

[Aleluvscp]

pfft! those girls have nothing on me :smug:

[RedGirl76]

I think you'll find the vast majority of the binge-drinking women are offensive.

 

 

 

 

Yes, and so are binge-drinking men, but they're not bothered about them, are they? Just like they allow famous men to grow old gracefully whilst highlighting every wrinkle on an older famous woman's face.

 

And don't dare go out without any make-up on ladies, the Daily Male find that even more offensive than binge-drinking! Our job is to sit there looking pretty and nodding our heads to whatever the men say...

[mc_squared]

I think you'll find the vast majority of the binge-drinking women are offensive.

 

 

 

 

Yes, and so are binge-drinking men, but they're not bothered about them, are they? Just like they allow famous men to grow old gracefully whilst highlighting every wrinkle on an older famous woman's face.

 

And don't dare go out without any make-up on ladies

 

Well that would certainly be preferable to too much make-up, that's for sure!!:P

[Space Cadet]

I think you'll find the vast majority of the binge-drinking women are offensive.:smug:

I do. I also find the vast majority of binge-drinking men offensive, and there's often far more of them and they're generally far more violent on a regular basis. Yet they're not being singled out. Last time I checked, the men and women drank together. I know the UK has a reputation for being a bit more over the top than here, but it can't be that different.

[Matter-Eater Lad]

Only women are alcoholics, its impossible for a man to drink too much.

[Tnspieler1012]

 

Our job is to sit there looking pretty and nodding our heads to whatever the men say...

 

Finally...a woman gets it! :D

[Black Rose]

Only women are alcoholics, its impossible for a man to drink too much.

 

Tell that to my brother when he draws the short straw and ends up driving the drunk bus. More male drunks than female drunks.

 

Although he says the males are more polite than the females :wink3:

[badlydrawngirl]

I think you'll find the vast majority of the binge-drinking women are offensive.

 

 

 

 

Yes, and so are binge-drinking men, but they're not bothered about them, are they? Just like they allow famous men to grow old gracefully whilst highlighting every wrinkle on an older famous woman's face.

 

And don't dare go out without any make-up on ladies, the Daily Male find that even more offensive than binge-drinking! Our job is to sit there looking pretty and nodding our heads to whatever the men say...

 

I agree, I hate the tabloids.

[a_face_of_light]

The worst I've managed was a bottle of Vodka in one night:embarassed:, now I don't really drink at all.

[Matter-Eater Lad]

someone ban this fucker^

[Black Rose]

Already taken care off

 

*puts sword away after cleaning spammer blood from blade*

 

Now, where were we?

[Matter-Eater Lad]

hahaha thank you.

 

Most women can out drink me, which I get made fun of for at every party I attended.

[professa95]

ive never had a drink i know shocking imm just sick of the steriotypes against irish people saying they all drink im irish and i dont think ill ever drink maybe a glass but never go out just to drink. I think all of these people male or female who excessivly drink have very low self esteem

[mc_squared]

I do. I also find the vast majority of binge-drinking men offensive, and there's often far more of them and they're generally far more violent on a regular basis. Yet they're not being singled out. Last time I checked, the men and women drank together. I know the UK has a reputation for being a bit more over the top than here, but it can't be that different.

 

It is. In Britain you get gangs of binge-drinking girls.:rolleyes:

[RedGirl76]

You don't even live here!

 

And they're not gangs, they're groups of women who admittedly drink too much. But any Saturday night when you go out, you'll see groups of men drinking just as much and behaving just as badly.

[The Escapist]

Women binge drinking rate is on the rise but it will never beat males.

[mc_squared]

You don't even live here!

 

I've been out on the town in Bristol and Cardiff in recent years, and have therefore seen more than enough.