The report of the Ministry of Health: drinks between meals and hospitalizations on the rise. Under 17 years old: binge drinking is popular even among girls
SASSARI. They drink between meals and therefore get revved up faster. Also because often the chosen modality is that of binge drinking, that is the “alcoholic binge”: five or six drinks thrown down in the record time of 2 or 3 hours, zero accompanying food to appease the effects. The result is heavy intoxication with frequent loss of control. And from this derives the high percentage of accesses to the emergency room with diagnosis attributable to alcohol and the second photocopy hospitalization within 30 days of the first discharge: Sardinia boasts the sad record of regularity in hospitals nationwide. The photograph that comes out of the ministerial report on alcohol abuse is distressing: in our island the mortality rate is higher than the national average, as is the percentage of subjects at risk, that is, who could develop an addiction to alcohol. due to bad behavior. If 14.9% of Sardinians exceed in consumption, there are two particularly critical age groups: children under the age of 17 and adults aged 65 to 74. In both cases the numbers are higher than the national average, for minors attention is also critical with regard to girls, because the percentage of those who get drunk is increasing, especially on weekends.
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