The media seems to be constantly talking about how bad alcohol is for people and that is causes anti-social behaviour. This is mostly caused from binge drinking which is when be people drink a lot of alcohol in for fairly smell amount of time (in other words a night out) apparently people getting drunk and enjoying themselves is anti-social and is danger to our country. Now, fair enough, there is a lot of crime caused by drinking and there is more violence on weekends when more people are out drinking but the number for crimes committed isn’t that great and doesn’t warrant the amount of media attention.
It seems to me, that if people want to stop binge drinking, then the way to do it is not through raising the price of alcohol as that he already shown it doesn’t stop it. Instead it seems to encourage it as people that as they have to spend a lot of money anyway they might as well spend that bit more and get drunk. Whereas if other activities were made cheaper like eating out or going to the cinema then people would have more options to do for a night out and would have to result to getting very drunk as the only way to have fun.
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2009/01January/Pages/BingedrinkingBritain.aspx
in the article above it says that the recommended daily amount for adult males to drink is 3-4 units a day which is only one glass of wine and women should only drink 2-3 so according to that women shouldn’t even one glass. This is one of the main problems with people criticising binge drinking because they are probably doing it without knowing.
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