A THIRD of Merseyside children are binge drinking every week, and the average 15-16 year-old is putting away up to 67 bottles of wine, or 269 pints of beer, every year. Those are the stark findings of a wide-ranging report released today which reveals that the problems cut right across society from the richest to poorest groups of youngsters. The study of 10,000 teenagers led by the Centre for Public Health at Liverpool John Moores University suggests that around 57,000 of the region’s 190,000 15-16-year-olds binge drink weekly.
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