Sorry, but this kind of thing can't be translated from one country to another. As our ambulance friend has pointed out today, it's the 'drinking to get drunk' culture in the UK which is the problem (what worries me even more is what does that mean about how sick our society is?) In France, for example, people also get drunk, but generally it's just as a side-effect of drinking together. When at university in the UK, I regularly saw students getting drunk BEFORE even going to a party. And the next day they'd say what a good time they must have had - because they couldn't remember anything...