This is nothing new and is the result of what happens when females are not 
under the strict control of men. Read the Greek play The Bacchae by 
Euripidrs.


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> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=563385&in_page_id=1770
>
> The number of women and girls arrested for being drunk and disorderly has 
> leapt
> tenfold in parts of Britain over the past five years.
>
>
>
> The shocking increase in drunken loutishness by "ladettes" - up more than 
> 50 per
> cent across the country overall - is being blamed by police leaders on the
> Government's controversial 24-hour licensing reforms.
>
> They said the figures were no surprise given the increasingly commonplace 
> scenes
> of young women staggering helplessly around town centres, or collapsed 
> amid
> pools of vomit.
>
> Alan Gordon, vice-chairman of the Police Federation, said the days when 
> officers
> could rely on women to provide a "calming influence" on male drinkers were 
> no
> more.
>
> Alcohol campaigners warned that women who follow the example of male
> binge-drinkers were creating a time-bomb of serious health problems, 
> including
> soaring rates of liver disease.
>
> They accused pubs and clubs of cynically targeting women to make them 
> drink
> more.
>
> The figures - and demands for urgent action from senior police - will add 
> to
> pressure on Gordon Brown, who raised campaigners' hopes by ordering a 
> review of
> the licensing reforms when he became Prime Minister last year, but then 
> dashed
> them by opting to leave the new laws as they were.
>
> Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said: "This is yet another consequence 
> of
> Labour's reckless decision to unleash 24-hour drinking on our towns and 
> cities
> while utterly failing to enforce existing laws against those who commit 
> alcohol
> related crime. It is lawabiding communities which are paying the price."
>
> Figures requested from police forces across England and Wales under the 
> Freedom
> of Information Act by Channel 4 News Online reveal dramatic increases in 
> numbers
> of women arrested for drunk and disorderly offences.
>
> The most dramatic surge was in the West Midlands which experienced a 1,138 
> per
> cent increase from 59 arrests in 2003-4 to 731 in 2007-8.
>
> Mike Craik, Chief Constable of Northumbria Police, where drunk and 
> disorderly
> arrests among women have risen from 1,414 to 2,101 in the past five years, 
> told
> Channel 4 there was a "clear need" for tough action, particularly to 
> tackle
> under-age drinking.
>
> He suggested a total ban on alcopops and all alcohol advertising, and 
> pricing
> alcohol according to its strength.
>
> He said: "There should also be an end to discounted drinks, such as 
> two-for-one
> deals, happy hours and supermarkets selling alcohol at below cost price."
>
> Alan Gordon, of the rank-and-file Police Federation, said: "There is a 
> direct
> correlation between licensing reforms and increases in alcohol-fuelled 
> disorder.
>
> "We have a culture of irresponsibility towards alcohol in this country, 
> which is
> more and more prevalent.
>
> "The Government tells people to drink more responsibly but then sends out
> confusing messages by making alcohol more accessible."
>
> Don Shenker, chief executive of Alcohol Concern, said: "There's no doubt 
> that
> the number of women binge-drinking has gone up. They are following the 
> example
> of young men.
>
> "The trouble is that women's bodies cannot handle these large amounts of
> alcohol."
>
> A recent survey of hospital admissions across Britain found that 
> alcohol-related
> cases were up 25 per cent in two years, and had risen four-fold in the 
> worst
> affected areas.
>
> The data was not included in the Government's recent review of the impact 
> of the
> new laws, which claimed the burden on the NHS was "stable".
>
> Women are less able to metabolise alcohol in the body and suffer more 
> extreme
> health effects than men who drink similar amounts.
>
> Medical experts warn that binge drinking among young women has reached 
> epidemic
> proportions, with some in their 20s and 30s suffering liver conditions 
> which
> doctors expect to see among far older, hardened drinkers.
>
> Women aged 35 to 44 are seven times more likely to die from chronic liver
> disease than they were 30 years ago.
>
> A Home Office spokesman said: "The Government will continue to ensure that 
> the
> police and courts have all the tools and powers they need to bring the
> irresponsible minority, men and women alike, swiftly to justice.
>
> "Overall, alcohol-related violence has fallen by around a third since 1995 
> but
> we are not complacent. There will be no let-up in the Government's efforts 
> to
> create a healthier drinking culture."
>