Nobody has suggested the full cost should be recovered; only that some charge should be made. I think that a fairly significant charge to someone treated for a self-induced condition of this sort might be, say, £75; roughly 7½ bottles of vodka, I make that. This should act as a reasonable symbolic deterrent to self-injury due to binge drinking, recover some of the cost, and make the point required as to the inadvisability of putting oneself outside the automatically free at point of use system by one's own idiotic actions. I still say that anyone who can get that legless with vodka at nearly £10 a bottle can afford to be charged at such a rate.

~M~