Cheap Alcohol Strongly Linked To Harmful Underage …
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Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Public Health studied the drinking habits of 9,833 15- to 16-year-olds in the North West of England, finding that excessively low cost alcohol products and illicit purchase are strongly related to harmful underage drinking. Mark Bellis worked with a team from Liverpool John Moores University and Trading Standards (North West) to survey the teens alcohol consumption patterns, drink types consumed, drinking locations, methods of access and harms encountered. He said: Regretted sex after drinking, having been involved in violence when drunk, consuming alcohol in public…