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by Change | 15 Dec 2008

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A booze bus ambulance and alcohol treatment centre is reducing the strain placed on other services by binge drinking.

A "booze bus" is being operated in London for City workers engaging in binge drinking, a source reveals.

Nick Lesslar, the Liverpool Street site's duty station officer, tells the Times the alcohol abuse centre can reduce pressure on hospital facilities and ensure treatment can be given quickly.

He says "we see it all in here", where those who have been picked up by the booze bus ambulance are given saline, placed into the recovery position to allow safe vomiting and monitored.

According to the news provider, if they have not improved within an hour, those who have fallen foul of alcohol abuse are taken to the hospital for a more extensive course of treatment.

The London Ambulance Service spends £642,000 on responding to drinking incidents involving 11-to-21 year olds during the last six months.

Mr Lesslar tells the source: "By having the treatment centre, we can attend to people quickly without using up other resources."

The need for alcohol abuse centres of this sort could soon be reduced, as the government has recently proposed a plan to ban all-you-can-drink offers, among a number of other promotional deals it states encourages irresponsible consumption.

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