A snapshot survey taken at 92 Emergency Departments (EDs) across Australia at 2am last Saturday morning has revealed that 1 out of 7 patients attended as a result of the harmful use of alcohol; in some hot spots as many as I in 3 were alcohol related. Researchers from the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) conducted the survey, which provides the first national glimpse at the amount of alcohol presentations being treated in our EDs, especially over the festive season.

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