A study where 200 employees at pubs and nightclubs in Stockholm has showed that half of those between 20 and 25 years have so big drinking problems that they could have need for treatment. The average in the whole population is three precent. 74% of men and 84 percent of women was categorized «risky alcohol habits», 33 percent of men and 40 percent of women could also placed in the group «problmatic alcohol habits» and 14 % of men and 16 % of women was seen to have «very problematic alcohol habits».

Håkan Leifman, at STAD who works with prevention, says that this serious especially because the workers are relatively oung. If they continue to drink like this the risk is big that the will end up as alcoholics, he says to the paper Dagens Nyheter.