Pity the drunk tank users – they do deserve help | Barbara Ellen

Society has created a need for ‘booze buses’ – from cheap alcohol to large measures to mental health issues – so compassion is the correct responseThe chief executive of the NHS, Simon Stevens, is monitoring how drunk tanks, aka “booze buses”, or mobile alcohol recovery units, some of which are already operating around the country, run on New Year’s Eve, to see if they should become a regular feature to take pressure off A&E departments. A national s