World Beating Brits

It seems that the English and the Scots have one characteristic where they really out-perform the rest of the world. The Global Drugs Survey for 2020 has found, in a 25 nation survey, that they get drunk (i.e. lose their balance and slur their speech) much more frequently (around 30 times per year), than people from the other nations (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/25/english-and-scottish-get-drunk-most-often-25-nation-survey-finds ). Alcohol can be a serious problem for some of the British. Around 5% of young Brits, under 25, have required hospital treatment, after getting drunk (hopefully, this is older data). This compares to a global average of 2%. Although alcohol is legal, it is nevertheless a drug. In excess, alcohol causes both physical and behavioural problems. I suspect that lockdown, in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, has dramatically increased home drinking in the UK population. Now, of course, is not a good time (was there ever a good time?) to be taken to a hospital, as a result of intoxification. It's neither good for the individual nor the over-stretched hospital.