I have just seen the Panorama programme, the feeling I got after viewing this horror film was one of absolute hopelessness, you had to feel sorry for the parents from the Bristol area, who had tried everything to control their two daughters, this was made impossible by the company they kept,and the same dilemma applied to the other towns featured.

Children as young as 11 years old were treated for excess drinking in hospitals throughout the land, liver disease at one time a disease associated with adults is now common with people in their early twenties.

This programme made very depressing viewing especially the shots of the young people in the various towns staggering around and being sick on the pavements, anyone got any ideas as to how this can be curbed?, as the programme makers never came up with any solutions.