Binge drinking - a British monopoly?
Maybe it's just a provincial town thing, but most weekend nights my hometown is alcohol-fuelled carnage, and it's not just the lads. Similar story in a lot of places I've been in the UK. I've travelled a bit, not a lot: US, Canada, Australia, NZ too so anglo-saxon type cultures and never saw anything quite like it anywhere else, just people having a good time without big dollops of random violence and people passed out in shop doorways etc. Is it really just here?? If we're sinking into a murky pit I want to know we're not completely alone.
I think it's worldwide, in Australia it's worse during the hot summer months ( the silly season we call it ) our government has recently increased the cost of Alcopops which is the favourite for our teenagers, a lot of people have criticed them for doing so but at least they are addressing the problem of teenage binge drinking which in a lot of cases is learnt from the parents.
