Number of young women visiting ER for alcohol-related issue jumps

Alcohol-related emergency room visits on the rise, especially in young women, and doctors are calling the statistics alarming. Dr. Peter Tanuseputro says, “We’ve seen over the last fourteen years that alcohol visits to the ER are increasing tremendously - 240 per cent – so that means it’s gone over two-and-a-half times essentially of what we saw ten years ago, fifteen years ago.” The area of concern is young women between the ages of 25 to 29. “If you look at