'We Are Facing the Meltdown of Society'

The ScotsmanMay 01, 2008

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IN THE beds of the emergency departments where he has worked for more than 20 years, Dr Bill Morrison has seen primary school children unconscious through alcohol, caked in their own waste and bearing wounds from falling as their legs gave way.

Year on year, he has seen more and more NHS resources devoted to ensuring these pre-teens do not choke to death on their own vomit.

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'We Are Facing the Meltdown of Society'

Yesterday, he unveiled the findings of an investigation into the effects of Scotland's "bevvy culture" on its emergency rooms - and warned the country was facing "social meltdown" in ten years.

In the six-week period of the study, almost 650 youngsters were admitted to emergency departments, the youngest of them only eigh...

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