My nieces don't need 'educating' about the dangers of binge drinking. They're v intelligent lasses, and their mother (as I said) is a doctor. They would scoff at the suggestion of changing their lifestyle, they revel in it.
"I think we are in danger of getting old..." I fear that my beautiful and much-loved nieces won't have the opportunity to 'get old'. They can't possibly have a long life in front of them at this rate. Their mother is in despair and v depressed about it. She sees liver failure etc etc daily in the hospital where she works.
In spite of other posters saying they had a drunken youth and are now fine, we must remember that women's livers are not so capable of processing alcohol as those of men. And I still maintain that when we were that age, we did NOT drink so much and so often as they do today. There wasn't the money to start with, and we just didn't have the inclination to get blind drunk. Very drunk young girls are vulnerable to pregnancy, STDs, rape, robbery, injury, even murder.
Could I also say that the drunks in A&E are often seriously injured through fighting, accidents etc. Their injuries MUST be treated, involving Xrays, sutures, bone-setting and so on. These are not things that can be refused to any patient.