Dr. Suzanne Crowe

We make sure they're breathing.

make sure their circulation is okay.

And it's not really much more specialist than that because you're just waiting for the child's liver and kidneys to get rid of the alcohol and for them to wake up.

But keeping them safe during that period, making sure that they're not going to vomit and inhale the vomit.

is very important but we also have to put in place a whole lot of other pediatric and child health and social health measures in around that child because if somebody's been found unconscious we need to be make sure that you know nothing else happened to them during that period of time and also then to make sure that the situation they're leaving the hospital with in terms of

alcohol and what's going on at home, that all has to be explored as well.

Well, you'd hope so.

But unfortunately, you know, a substantial number, I think it's about 10% of teenagers who are drinking actually have alcohol dependency disorder.

So that's very, I won't say sobering, but that's very serious when you think about it.

They're already addicted.

Yeah, they're already dependent.

So, you know, OK, perhaps they did wake up and they had a bit of a hangover.

But unfortunately, like older drinkers, they continue to use.