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UK Girls Bet on Morning-after Pill, Situation Cause for Concern
A survey of 500 students found nearly half had used the pill. The study was carried out among students in their late teens and early 20s at Kingston University in South-West London.
A fifth of those polled by the student newspaper The River said they had had more than one sexual partner in a week and one in ten of the men claimed to have slept with at least two women in one day.
A third said they did not regularly use condoms with new sexual partners, leaving them at risk of sexually transmitted infections as well as unplanned pregnancies.
Seven in ten of those who took the pill did so because they hadn't used any other form of precaution.
The findings will fuel worries that growing numbers of women are relying on the drug to prevent pregnancy, rather than using it as back-up contraception when their regular method fails.
It comes as concern mounts about the increasing availability of the drug.
It was advertised on TV for the first time last month and is on sale online as well as over the counter at pharmacies.
Norman Wells, of the campaign group Family and Youth Concern, said the morning-after pill also encouraged promiscuity. 'When the morning-after pill was first approved for use in the UK, assurances were given that it would be used only in exceptional circumstances and would remain a prescription-only drug under the control of doctors,' he said.
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