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Girl hospitalised after 18 shots of tequila during contest

A 17-year-old girl was hospitalised in Cordoba, Argentina with an alcoholic coma after taking 18 measures of tequila in a drinking competition. The girl became intoxicated in a discotheque where she and her classmates celebrated an end of year party.

    Chinese Communist Party Secretary dies from official binge-drinking

    Submitted by mej-juana on Tue, 10/11/2009 - 13:17

    Today many British newspapers are reporting on the death of Shen Hao, 46, the communist Party Secretary of Fengyang county's Xiaogang village, who died on Friday after an official binge-drinking-prone banquet. Mr Shen is now the third victim of a new tradition of lush business events in which drinking heavily is the way to prove status and engage in conversation. Previous victims were Jin Guoqing, deputy director of water resources in Xinzhou district (47) and Guo Shizhong, a family planning official from Xinyang, Central China's Henan province.

      An Aboriginal with problems related alcohol is trying to rebuild his original lifestyle

      Hello, my name is Harold and I am an alcoholic, I am also an Aboriginal alcoholic. There was a time when a lot of people thought all Aboriginal people were alcoholics, and some of us believed that too. But since I've got into AA and this new way of life, the way of life that I believe all people are meant to be living, I now know the difference.

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