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by Change | 17 Oct 2008

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The reality of alcohol addiction in the lives of youngsters across the country has been highlighted in a recent report.

Teenage lives are being endangered by the level of alcohol addiction among youngsters in the UK, a recent report has claimed.

A study from the Daily Mail has highlighted the risks inherent in teenagers drinking from an early age, from the effects on their education to how their health could suffer.

In addition to sexual infections and abortion costs, giving alcohol treatment to teenagers makes up part of an annual outlay of £130 million by the NHS each year, the publication says.

The newspaper focuses on the extreme case of 18-year-old Natasha Farnham, whose consumption of six bottles of wine and a litre of vodka per day led to her being told by doctors if she had one more drink she could die.

Dr Nick Sheron, a liver physician at Southampton General Hospital, told the source: "Parents worry about teenage cancer and meningitis, but they all pale into insignificance when viewed against the numbers killed in alcohol-related incidents."

The publication recently reported babies and children as young as one have been admitted to London hospitals for emergency alcohol treatment over the last two years after accidentally consuming the substance.

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