Binge drinking
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 …







