Binge drinking - drinking for the sake of getting drunk - is reaching alarming levels among European teenagers, a major new study has revealed.
"The phenomenon of binge drinking among European youth is about to be established all over the continent," one of the report's authors, Peter Anderson, told Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet in Geneva.
"All signs show that the trend will continue," he said.
The report, carried out by the London Institute of Alcohol Studies on be...
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