DVD reveals perils of alcohol

THERE’S nothing glamorous about vomiting, getting into fights and being so blind drunk you fall over and injure yourself, a new DVD for schools shows.

The short, dramatised DVD which was produced by staff and students at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) has been hailed as a welcome fight-back against drinks advertising which glamorises alcohol, according to the Director of the Irish College of General Practitioners’ (ICGP) Alcohol Project, Rolande Anderson.

Launching the 10-minute DVD on the perils of binge drinking, he warned of a wave of alcohol-related problems such as alcoholism, liver problems, impotence and drink-fuelled violence and sexual assaults if drinking in Irish society as a whole is not curbed.