Moderation in drinking is something too few Irish people have achieved.
A Health Research Board survey, in which 6,000 people aged between 18 and 75 were asked to reveal their present and past patterns of alcohol consumption, presents disturbing results. Nationally some 2.48 million people drink alcohol. Half that number (54 per cent) drink harmfully, and to excess, according to the survey. Binge drinking – consuming more than three pints of beer during one night out – has become an increasingly worrying feature of overall alcohol consumption. And one in five drinkers do so at least once a week.
What many Irish drinkers, by subjective self-assessment, might regard as excessive clearly differs greatly from the norms and limits set by international experts. The experts – in this case the European Commission – have established what are the harmful health and social effects of excessive drinking, and its high personal and financial costs.
Source: Irish Times, 30/06/14
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