Binge drinking

My Last Drink: A Student's Views on Alcohol

I consider myself to be a social drinker. What that means in my head is that I’m happy to drink the equivalent of 1 or 2 pints a night without any desperate need to get drunk particularly, but I wouldn’t be too worried if the evening carried on and it did end up that way. I go to the pub with my friends a lot, and generally try to avoid the kind of people who use ‘being drunk’ as a synonym for ‘feeling confident’, or who pre-drink compulsively before nights out like they’re workers on some kind of alcoholic conveyor belt.

    "Three glasses a day, for good health and lively blood"

    In the wake of alarming new research about alcohol consumption in Scotland, the Right Rev Bob Gillies, Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney in the Scottish Episcopal Church has accused the Benedictine Monks in Devon who first brewed Buckfast tonic wine of betraying Christian values. 

    The fortified wine which had previously been marketed with the slogan “Three small glasses a day, for good health and lively blood” is 15% proof and a 75cl bottle has approximately the same amount of caffeine as six cans of cola. 

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