'Hangover hospitals' should be funded by license trade

When I read this my first reaction were that it is great that these 'revel zone' field hospitals save emergency resources elsewhere but it seemed unfair that the rest of us were subsidising the bad choices of revellers especially when the promos of the licensed trade were supporting the making of those bad choices.

Although widely welcomed by police and medical experts, one doctor said such field hospitals should be funded by the drinks industry.
'At the moment this is being funded by the primary care trust from a special initiative fund, but there is no long-term funding for it,' said Dr Chris Record, a liver specialist at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary. 'This kind of facility is the kind of thing the licensing trade should be paying for through a supplement in the licensing fee.'

So I agreed with that. Don't get me wrong; I think that partying is fun and I don't begrudge anyone a night out or even the occasional misestimation of how much they are drinking and how fast. But in a situation where there is a culture of getting off your head quite deliberately and thinking that it is big and clever, and such an attitude is aided and abetted by advertising and promotional offers, I don't think it's unreasonable for the rest of us to say that the choices to do that affect the rest of us negatively, not least in that we pick up the bills for healthcare, policing and sundry damage, so if they wish to continue to exercise their choices in that way, please would they relieve the rest of us from those bills?
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