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UK Addiction Expert Calls for Increased Drinking Age
September 29, 2003

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A leading addiction expert in the United Kingdom has called on government officials to increase the legal drinking age from 18 to 21, the BBC reported Sept. 11.

Professor Colin Drummond, a consultant psychiatrist who is advising the government on alcohol matters, said, "Certainly, in America where this has been done, there has been a significant reduction in, for example, alcohol-related road deaths."

Drummond said that alcohol misuse among 18- to 24-year-olds in the last 12 years is up 32 percent for men and 70 percent for women. "About a third of men and a fifth of women are now drinking above the government's safe drinking levels," he noted.

Drummond also said the government should require health warnings, similar to those on cigarette packs, on alcohol bottles and cans.

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