Drink Plan Criticised
December 22, 2007
GOVERNMENT and industry measures to tackle binge drinking are failing, leading doctors said yesterday.
Educating the public is not leading to a change in people’s behaviour, they said.
Professor Ian Gilmore, president of the Royal College of Physicians and Dr Nick Sheron, a liver specialist at Southampton University Hospital, argued in favour of using tough methods to tackle drink problems.
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