Date: 06/07/2009
According to doctors, children as young as eight are being brought into hospitals unconscious after getting drunk on cheap cider, spirits and alcopops as cut-price alcohol is easier to access.
The British Medical Association's annual conference were told that the problem of binge-drinking is now so serious that small hospitals that used to treat one intoxicated child a month are now receiving several under-age drinkers every weekend
The warnings from doctors were backed by figures suggesting that a child under 12 is being admitted to Accident & Emergency departments because of alcohol every other day. Of the more than 4,500 hospital admissions of children under the age of 16 caused by alcohol last year, 181 involved under-12s.
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