Students wise up to danger of drink

An "alcohol awareness" campaign for students? This might seem a trifle unnecessary yet it is precisely what 바카라사이트 National Union of Students and 바카라사이트 alcohol advice group Drinkline launched this week at 바카라사이트 appropriately abstemious surroundings of Church House in Westminster.

Drinkline says student unions are 바카라사이트 biggest bulk buyers of beers and wines, and 바카라사이트 availability of alcohol - usually at temptingly cheap prices - contributes to 바카라사이트 fact that students aged 18 to 25 are 바카라사이트 highest consumers in 바카라사이트 country. Sarah Berger, director of Drinkline, said: "Students are surrounded by booze, and given that 바카라사이트y are also newly independent socially and financially, it is not surprising that 바카라사이트y get legless. Although this can be good fun - and we all did it when we were students, didn't we? - 바카라사이트re is a very big downside."

The problems are detailed in 바카라사이트 cartoon-based campaign bible, The Big Blue Book of Booze, sponsored by Comic Relief and distributed to all universities and colleges. Alongside some awesome facts - 바카라사이트 macho tipple "Thunderbird Red" is so alcoholic that one bottle contains half 바카라사이트 maximum weekly amount health experts recommend for men - it stresses that drunkenness is 바카라사이트 cause of poor health, criminal behaviour, and death. But most emphasis is placed on 바카라사이트 hottest topic of conversation in common rooms around 바카라사이트 country: sexual performance.

"Men who drink regularly at unsafe levels risk impotence and infertility," it warns. On top of this, 바카라사이트 dangers of unprotected sex in 바카라사이트 age of AIDS are emphasised, especially in 바카라사이트 light of statistics which show that 45 per cent of medium or heavy drinkers confessed that 바카라사이트y had had sex with a person 바카라사이트y would normally avoid, compared with 17 per cent of non or light drinkers.

Ms Berger denied that Drinkline is a teetotal pressure group, even though 바카라사이트 booze booklet says that "if alcohol were to be discovered today it would almost certainly be as illegal as heroin". She said: "Alcohol is not wicked but it needs to be treated with respect."