Alcohol has become part of routine daily behavior for most UK adults

Alcohol has apparently become a crucial part of routine daily behaviour for the UK adults, with most of them often hitting the bottle to ‘unwind’ after a stressful day! Thursday and Friday nights have become the ‘booziest’ of the week!

Bigwig mutual healthcare provider Benenden Healthcare Society recently commissioned a study which found that the typical adult in the UK reaches into the fridge for a cold alcoholic beverage barely one-and-a-half hours after arriving home.

According to the findings of the study, involving 3,000 Brits, wine has become the favorite evening drink, instead of beer, for most of the adults in the country. The average UK adult consumes nearly 11 alcoholic units – that is, slightly more than five pints - per week.

And, surprisingly, 20 percent of the Brits acknowledge the fact that they drink “too much”!

The key reasons that the Brits have given for opening the bottle everyday include drinking “out of habit”; “escapism”; “to help them forget their day” or “to get to sleep.”

In fact, what is more worrisome is that since most Brits now drink more at home rather than going to the pubs, children may get easy access to alcohol and may also be encouraged to drink.

Not for nothing has there been a disquieting increase in the number of hospital admissions and alcoholic liver damage in children of late!