| Belfast named as UK’s
booziest city
BELFAST has gained the unenviable tag of being the home to the biggest
boozers in UK, according to shocking new research.
A survey says that people living in the city will, on average, spend £47,568
on alcohol in their lifetime.
The survey — by alcohol rehabilitation website www. pcpluton.com — reported
that the student town of Cambridge came second in the tipsy town tally.
There people will spend £40,939 on booze between birth and death.
Falling in behind Belfast and Cambridge are Leeds, Leicester and Manchester.
Another of its findings was that one-in-10 people in UK will have had
their first taste of alcohol by their 10th birthday.
Furthermore, while 14 per cent of people considered themselves to be binge
drinkers only 8 per cent are actually worried about it.
Darren Rolfe of www.pcpluton.com — which has worked with people from the
North of Ireland — said: “It is quite scary to see how much is literally
being poured down the drain and how young some people are when they start
drinking.
“Those who find long-lasting recovery from addiction discover much better
and more productive ways to spend their hard-earned cash.”
The North of Ireland was also top of the survey’s regions poll, coming out
ahead of the North-West and London.
The Eastern Drugs And Alcohol Co-ordination Team (EDACT) in the North stated
in its annual report that it had 3,702 new referrals for alcohol to its
treatment services, compared to 740 new drug referrals.
Last year a study by Belfast City Hospital was published showing that the
number of hospital patients over the drink-drive limit in Belfast had risen
by 113 per cent in five years.
UK’s biggest boozers
1. Belfast
2. Cambridge
3. Leeds
4. Leicester
5. Manchester
6. London
7. Sheffield
8. Bristol
9. Aberdeen
10. Cardiff |
