adminUK teenagers might have a reputation for binge drinking, but in reality the number of young people consuming alcohol has declined sharply. Why? “There is nothing that says you can’t go out and have fun without a drink,” says Liam Brooks, 18. Since November he’s been old enough to buy alcohol legally in pubs, but he’s never touched a drop.
“It’s the mindset the media has that every 18-year-old goes out and gets drunk.
“Maybe people in the previous generation did. But nowadays, most people would go out to hang out.”
It was the sight of intoxicated older people that helped put Liam, from Dagenham, Essex, off drinking for life.
One occasion when he had to put his parents’ inebriated friends to bed convinced him that “there is no pretty drunk”. – Splash.
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