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Town Centres As Binge Drinking Destination

by Gopalan on May 16, 2010 at 3:55 PM Alcohol & Drug Abuse News

Authorities in the UK are expressing their concern over the increasing menace of binge drinking and seem to believe redesigning town centres could be a way out.

Town Centres As Binge Drinking Destination

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Town centres, traditionally associated with shopping or retail, have come to be seen as a notorious destination for binge drinking.�

Town centre have seen�a dramatic rise in new pubs and bars, and the creation of dedicated, fashionable drinking circuits aimed at young drinkers. Now everyone is�wondering the wisdom of such a phenomenon.

Simon O�Brien, the deputy inspector of policing for Ireland, told a seminar in Cardiff that redesigning town centres could be more effective than taxes on alcohol.

And he called on council licensing and planning committees to work together to prevent town centres becoming magnets for drunken young people and no-go areas for families.

The event, organised by the British Medical Association Wales, brought together leading experts to debate what action is needed to tackle binge drinking and its impact on health.

Dr Richard Lewis, the BMA�s Welsh secretary, said: �We are seeing increasing alcohol use in society which is having not only a profound effect on an individual�s health but it also causes problems in society, including violence, road accidents and alcohol-related crime in its broadest sense.

�And we mustn�t forget the impact it has within the home and on families.�

Dr Zul Mirza, the president of emergency medicine at the Royal Society of Medicine told the seminar he regularly saw children, teenagers and young women admitted to hospital with alcohol poisoning.

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prema

05/16/2010

This is a very relevant insight into a difficult problem. Should the Indian Government not ban giving license to sell alcohol on Indian highways, the shops being located conveniently near petrol stations. Most trucks stop in the evening near these shops for an hour to fill up their tanks and themselves. No wonder India has one of the highest death rates due to traffic accidents in the world.

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