Britain’s need for ‘drunk tanks’ shows how broken our society is | Simon Jenkins

If we can have booze buses, then why not care clubs for the isolated, vulnerable and unwell? The need is sadly all too great

Friday night in a big city casualty department is not a nice place to be. A reported 70% of patients are not really ill, just blind drunk. What on earth are they doing there?

The answer is that every social nuisance nowadays seems to lead either to a police station or A&E. In recent years, 12 British cities have been “experimenting” with so-called alcohol recovery uni...