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		<title>Binge Drinking in Childhood and Adolescence &#8211; Germany</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/binge-drinking-in-childhood-and-adolescence-germany/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via the SHEU, and while Germany is very much outside of our geographical remit, I thought this might be a useful comparison to the stories we often see about the numbers of young people who end up in hospitals in this country as a result of alcohol.
According to this story, and this paper:
the number of adolescents admitted to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2805&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hospital Admissions &#8211; Alcohol</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/hospital-admissions-alcohol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 14:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberal Democrat MP Paul Burstow asks a question about admissions to hospital as a result of alcohol misuse over the last decade and gets an answer from Dawn Primarolo, the Health Minister, which includes figures about the number of young people needing hospital treatment.
You&#8217;ll see from the graphs that I&#8217;ve created that the big rises [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2669&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>20,000 under 10s hospitalised with drug poisoning in five years</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/10/22/20000-under-10s-hospitalised-with-drug-poisoning-in-five-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Telegraph:
In total more than 100,000 children were admitted to hospital for treatment, including 60,000 under 16s.
The drugs involved ranged from narcotics and hallucinogens to antibiotics and other medicines.
The figures were obtained by the Liberal Democrats, who described the statistics as &#8220;horrific&#8221; and accused the Government of failing to tackle the problem.
Last month official figures [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1832&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hospital toll of young binge drinking third higher than thought</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/hospital-toll-of-young-binge-drinking-third-higher-than-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Telegraph have a story about new estimates for the numbers needing hospital treatment as a result of alcohol:
By including illnesses and injuries indirectly caused by excessive drinking, such as car accidents and assaults, the new study has attempted to give a fuller figure of the impact of heavy drinking on the NHS.
Statistics released by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1598&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cocaine overdose hospital admissions rise 400 per cent in just four years</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/cocaine-overdose-hospital-admissions-rise-400-per-cent-in-just-four-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 16:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mail pick up on figures that appear in Druglink about hospital admissions as a result of cocaine abuse.  Almost all of the contributors to the piece are sure that celebrities are acting as recruiting sergeants for the drug.  Here&#8217;s Mary Brett: 
&#8216;We were supposed to see cocaine use being targeted as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1327&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NHS hospital admissions specifically related to alcohol more than double in 12 years</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/nhs-hospital-admissions-specifically-related-to-alcohol-more-than-double-in-12-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 09:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NHS Information Centre has a new report about alcohol related admissions to hospital.  It makes for grim reading:


In 2006/7 there were 57,100 admissions with a primary diagnosis specifically related to alcohol, such as alcoholic liver disease, a 52 per cent rise since 1995/96.
Of these admissions, 4,900 (nine per cent) involved patients aged under [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1324&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>City uncovers teen booze culture</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/city-uncovers-teen-booze-culture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC report on a survey carried out with young people in Hull.  They say that 166 young people under 18 needed hospital treatment as a result of alcohol misuse and go on to report:
A total of 480 young people were questioned about their drinking habits by officers dealing with anti-social behaviour, along with drug [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1190&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alcohol hospital admissions rise in South West</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/alcohol-hospital-admissions-rise-in-south-west/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC NEWS
 The report also estimated that 728,500 people aged from 16-64 in the region drink to &#8220;hazardous&#8221; levels and about 119,000 are dependent drinkers.There is particular concern over the number of young people being admitted to hospital because of drink.
The number of under 18-year-olds admitted to hospital because of acute intoxication increased by 60% [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1173&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Under-8s in A&amp;E for drink abuse</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/under-8s-in-ae-for-drink-abuse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Channel 4:
 Children under eight have been admitted to A&#38;E for alcohol-related problems 95 times in the past year, the Liberal Democrats said.The number of admissions involving girls under 18 has also risen by almost 50% in the last five years, figures showed.
In 2002/02, there were 3,084 admissions involving girls under 18, rising to 4,538 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1096&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hospitals treat 8,000 drunk children each year &#8211; Telegraph</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/hospitals-treat-8000-drunk-children-each-year-telegraph/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Telegraph return to the issue of the number of young people needing hospital attention as a result of drinking:
The number of school-age children needing medical treatment after binge drinking has soared by nearly 40 per cent in just six years.
New figures show 22 under-18s were admitted to hospital in England every day in the first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1028&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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