European countries RANKED by how often they binge-drink in major new report...
and just guess how UK boozers measure up READ MORE: The exact amount you can drink before severe liver damage occurs By JONATHAN NEAL FOR MAILONLINE Published: 06:20 EST, 1 January 2025 | Updated: 06:33 EST, 1 January 2025 e-mail View comments British women have come close to the top of a new European 'binge-drinking league', sparking concern that warnings about alcohol health harms are being ignored. Current NHS guidelines recommend no more than six drinks per week — with this amount spread out over seven days. Yet a quarter of women in the UK admitted to regularly consuming this much or more in a single session — defined as 'heavy episodic drinking' in a new report.
Only Danish women were more likely to hit the bottle , the research from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) showed. While 45 per cent of British men admitted to regular booze sessions, they came fifth in the league behind Romania , Denmark, Finland and Luxembourg. This meant the UK ranked third, overall, in the boozer list.
Even more worryingly, among uner-15s, British teenage girls were found to be out-drinking almost all of their European peers. A shocking one in ten (12 per cent) of 13-year-old girls in the UK confessed to having been drunk 'at least twice' — despite the legal drinking age being 18. Your browser does not support iframes.
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