Local binge drinking ‘short-lived’ compared with UK
Wednesday 19th January 2011, 2:29PM GMT.
BINGE drinking in Guernsey needs to be tackled, according to drug and alcohol strategy coordinator Andrea Nightingale.
The UK government is proposing a fixed minimum price for alcohol.
Mrs Nightingale (pictured) said she supported any move that reduced the amount of binge drinking in the island, but the issue of setting a minimum price had not been looked at in detail yet.
‘Binge drinking can be seen on a Friday and Saturday night, but is normally well policed and is relatively short-lived in comparison to town centres in the UK.’
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If it was cheaper i wouldn’t need to Binge at the Weekend, i could keep an even Buzz going all week with aa few Pints everynight.
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Here we go again, put prices up etc to stop binge drinking, the price of alcohol in the bars, clubs etc is already overpriced (by the brewery) but they can supply all the supermarkets cheap enough that the so called binge drinkers can stock up cheaply at home have a party get half sozzled then hit the town and not have to buy too much at the pubs overpriced prices. So once again it will be the ordinary working person that will end up paying more as with everything else.
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Erm, this is Guernsey. People are loaded, a price rise won’t work.
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Is not drug abuse about lack of education ?
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Dean you might be loaded but I, for one, certainly am not
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Sorry to hear that.
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