hellsbells Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 It's not just the local alkies who buy the drink for the teenagers. A few months ago I had the misfortune to be at the Viking waiting for a bus on a Saturday tea time. I seen older guys about 19/20 turning up and leaving drink for the younger ones to collect. I did report to the police what I saw but I don't know if anything happened. I only knew the older guys to see as I've seen them at the bus station before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 ^ ^ That's the way it's usually done as far as i'm aware Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrunchieSquirrel Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 I heard about this story on TV about this alcoholic who died of cirrhosis of the liver: He started doing this when he was 8 years old (I think it was set in the 60s) and that he drunk nearly two bottles of whisky per night and he had hangovers nearly everyday and that his parents got arrested for child abuse when he was nearly 11.At the age of 23, he didn't have a job because of bad grades and no qualifications whatsoever. In early 90s, when he was 38, he was sent to a hospice because his liver was so badly damaged, at the age of 41, he died suddenly of cirrhosis of the liver. So kids, don't do underage drinking. It's bad for you and so did this neglected man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAStewart Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 ^ I can't tell if you are serious. The term "underage drinking" has somehow become "underage alcoholic". It is the case for the minority of people that they get too drunk and have to go to hospital. When I drunk alcohol underage did the Shetland Times ever have the following headline: Boy, 16, gets drunk, has a good night out, and causes no-one harm. Of course not. I drunk from the age of 14 and I'm now 21. I never had to get my stomach pumped, I've never had liver disease (yet..), I've never been in a fight, I've never damaged property. The problem really is not as bad as everyone is portraying it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassermaet Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 James is right. I've never caused anyone any harm when drunk (apart from telling my sister her perfume smelled awful a couple of Christmases ago - and it did, it was that sickly Britney Spears Fantasy crap - as well as falling down the steps at the Hilltop and spraining my ankle that New Year). I don't always need to drink to have a good time either, but sometimes it's nice not to get utterly beyatched. Also, my sister and her friends can be quite well-behaved on nights out, whether blootered or not. It just sucks that people are tarring them all with the same brush. We were all youngeens once! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Styles Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 Me and my pals started drinking ever weekend till we were totally blootered from since we were 15, it never seemed to do us any harm at all. Was just a good laugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleJoannie Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 ^^^Your experience is probably quite common. However not everyone eases up as they get older. Alcohol disease 'hits young hard' Whereas before most hospital consultants would have seen patients in their fifties or sixties in the past, they now describe seeing patients in their early twenties with alcohol-related hepatitis, and women whose livers are permanently damaged with the scarring known as cirrhosis by the time they are 30. Dr Jonathan Mitchell, a consultant hepatologist in Plymouth, is one of the specialists who contacted the BBC. He said many of his patients did not realise the permanent damage to their health caused by regular heavy drinking. Until it reaches a critical stage most liver disease is virtually without symptoms. Dr Mitchell said: "I've seen patients who've been admitted with pretty catastrophic bleeding from stomach and oesophagus with no prior warning of a problem of their liver. "Others may present with jaundice or swelling of the abdomen because there's a lot of fluid in the abdomen. "All these three things are signs of quite advanced liver disease and can come out of the blue." And in the news yesterday Alcohol 'kills one in 20 Scots' They identified 53 different causes of death, ranging from stomach cancer and strokes to assaults and road deaths, in which alcohol played a part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulb Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 and once the symptoms appear your not going to heal. unlike a now dead Irish footie player they will not give livers to drinkers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAStewart Posted July 2, 2009 Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 To keep your place in the new liver Q, you cannot drink alcohol, but; If you have liver disease, you're not going to drink. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulb Posted July 2, 2009 Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 i wish that was true. if most drinker did stop at the first syptom they would be better off. but they don't they continue until they snuff it. then you need to think about the ones that stop the damage is non repairable. there are quite a few folks up here who also have drink related mental health issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAStewart Posted July 2, 2009 Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 Esch... survival of the fittest... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roachmill Posted July 2, 2009 Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 ^Survival of the fittest huh? No thanks. They [broad sweeping generalisation warning] all [/broad sweeping generalisation warning] need to take a drink some time and lighten up. Fit people die too as the fanatical preaching ones tend to forget as they lecture you. Not that I'm bitter or anything Here's to survival of the well balanced! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAStewart Posted July 2, 2009 Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 Survival of the well balanced = Survival of the fittest. Because being well balanced is an intellegent thing to do.And being intellegent helps you survive in certain situations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleJoannie Posted July 2, 2009 Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 Sometimes it is not the drinker themselves who pays the price, but the innocent they mow down while drunk driving, or the family member whose life is made intolerable by their behaviour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xoni Posted July 2, 2009 Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 Bottom line is anyone drinking or being given drink under the LEGAL age limit is breaking the law and the law was put into place in the first instance because it was decided that 13/14/15 year old's are not capable at that age of making sound and informed/responsible decisions much the same as under age sex , which seems to be equally as acceptable... ..but thats a different thread ( although the two are often related ) ! Just because something somehow has been slowly ingrained into a culture over the years dosn't make it right Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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