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By Danny Rose, Medical Writer
AAP
August 15, 2009 12:40pm

    * Rapid rise in alcohol hospitalisations
    * Young females now match male statistics
    * Researchers blame alcopops trend
    * New Year's Eve, Mardi Gras the worst nights

THERE has been a surge in young people being hospitalised for "acute alcohol problems" over the last few years, and researchers say it's because of alcopops.

Hospitals across NSW have seen a 50 per cent increase in people needing treatment for alcohol-related issues in just eight years.

The surge in extremely drunk and ill or injured patients is made up mostly of the young, and research also shows how this rise mirrors "the trend in consumption of ready-to-drink alcoholic beverages'', known as alcopops.

The impact from alcopops can also be seen in the rate of young drunk women who turn up in hospital emergency departments (ED) - which has steadily increased since 2002 to now equal young men.

"Analysis of routine ED databases can provide a timely insight into the social and epidemiological context of high-risk drinking,'' writes NSW Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol Office director David McGrath and fellow researchers.


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"The rise in alcohol-related presentation among teenagers and young adults bodes poorly for subsequent long-term alcohol use disorders and other risk behaviours and their consequences.''

The research team reviewed emergency room data from 43 hospitals across NSW over eight years.

They found people attending a hospital with acute alcohol problems increased from 98.7 per 100,000 head of population (6,400 cases) in 2000 to 149.4 per 100,000 (10,382 cases) in 2008.

The major surge occurred from 2005, Mr McGrath and his fellow researchers write in a letter published in the Medical Journal of Australia.

"Between 2005 and 2008, the rate of ED presentations for acute alcohol problems rose sharply from around 110 to almost 150 per 100,000 population,'' he says.

"The largest increase was among 18-24-year-olds (and) notably, in that age group, the rate in women converged with that of men.''

"The... increase in young people, which flattened in 2008, is similar to the trend in consumption of ready-to-drink alcoholic beverages over the same period.''

The research also shows how New Year's Eve and Sydney's Mardi Gras since 2007 are the calendar's major drivers of alcohol-related hospital presentations.

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