Consistently high alcohol consumption in Hesse

Alcohol consumption: dependency in Hesse still high

07/07/2014

Around 96,000 people in Hesse are seriously alcoholic according to the Hessische Landesstelle für Suchtfragen (HLH). In addition, just under 700,000 Hessians would show a risky alcohol consumption of more than 0.6 liters of beer. In Germany, this probably applies to around 9.5 million people. Although there has been a decline in alcohol consumption among children and adolescents for several years, so-called binge drinking continues to worry HLS experts.

„The comatose drunkenness seems to have no turnaround in sight“, so the message of the Hessian state office for addiction questions. The number of children and adolescents under the age of 18, who had to be hospitalized for alcohol poisoning, has remained high in recent years. (Fp)