People's Blogs and Stories

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Introduction...
Firstly, it is really hard to find online someone's personal blog of their struggle through binge drinking. I suppose the generation we are looking at do not have time to go online and type about their recent drunken banter, or the bother to do so. However, there are plenty of blogs and websites online offering worrying parents advice on how to tame their troublesome teens and how to recognise the signs. In a way, it's saddening to see that the world is not offering aid directly to the teenagers themselves. A society failing to encourage positivity amongst young people.

Below I have posted links to interesting blogs and websites, some are contrasting in opinions and others put forth interesting ideologies.

Links to Blogs and Websites...
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/mental-health/2009/02/is-british-binge-drinking-a-go.html

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/10/05/british-parents-relaxed-attitude-to-teen-drinking-drug-using-and-sex/

http://www.diyfather.com/content/Teenage_Binge_Drinking

http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080203211357AAIy4Md

Mmm... And where did all the positive pages go?
I was trying my absolute hardest to find a blog that had a postive outlook on binge drinking and, unsurprisingly, there was near on none. Obviously, people do not want to encourage excessive alcohol abuse. So the above links skirt around the positive aspects and hammer on and on about how bad it all is. Sorry teens, the web doesn't agree with you.

Stastistics
Research published by the health charity DPP: Developing Patient Partnerships found that 24% of Britons sometimes drink just to "get drunk".

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the figure is even higher in young people with 59% of 18-24 year olds and 43% of 25-34 year olds drinking to get drunk.

More than a quarter (27%) of working Brits have had times when they struggle to do their jobs because they are hungover, rising to 80% of 18-34 year olds. (BBC)

Binge drinking is most common among 16–24-year-olds, and is more common among men than women. The General Lifestyle Survey 2008 showed that 21% of men and 14% of women drank more than double their recommended units on at least one day in the previous week. However, in the last decade binge drinking among young British women has increased rapidly.



Biblography:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5031624.stm

http://www.drinkaware.co.uk/facts/binge-drinking