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Binge drinking

Managing Editor, Cochrane Injuries Group; paul.chinnock@lshtm.ac.uk

Keywords: alcohol; British media

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The Cochrane Collaboration is an international network but the editorial base of the Cochrane Injuries Group (CIG) is in Britain and we are exposed to the British media’s current "take" on injury prevention. Road traffic injuries may be the biggest killer but—so we are told—the public worries more about violent crime.

One cause of violence that is currently under the spotlight is binge drinking. In recent years there has been a change in British drinking culture and some city centres—not to mention the centre of the small town where I live—can indeed resemble a battlefield on a Friday or Saturday night. However, the media revels in its exaggeration of the scale of the injury problem this causes, focusing inevitably on injuries from violent attacks rather than on unintentional injuries caused by drunks to themselves or others. Arguably, the long term effects on the health of binge drinkers, together with the . . . [Full text of this article]