British Schoolgirl, 15, drinks 26 pints of cider, ten cans of lager and almost a bottle of vodka EVERY week (but insists she hasn't got a problem)
A schoolgirl who drinks more than 10 times the recommended amount for a woman every week insists she isn't an alcoholic.
My behaviour is normal for my age,'
'Drinking's fun and I don't plan to stop. I'd be bored if I didn't drink.'Nicola, who lives with her mother and younger siblings in Bridlington, Yorkshire, says her drinking escalated when she turned 14.
She started bunking off school to go drinking with her friends and now goes to college just two days a week. She spends the other three weekdays downing cans of alcohol with friends and pays for her habit with earnings from her Saturday job at a cafe. She also smokes 20 cigarettes a day.
Her mother is so worried she stopped her from watching TV or using her phone. She even circulated her daughter's picture among the local pubs and bars last summer to stop her from being served, but Nicola is undaunted.
'I can just get booze from shops instead,' she said.
Nicola admits that she uses alcohol as a way to cope with her feelings about her father who left home when she was five.
'Drinking was a release if I was down,' she said.
Two months ago, Nicola was even hospitalised after she drank around 45 units in one night to cope with the death of her mother's friend.
She started choking on her own vomit and was violent with a paramedic who tried to help me her. She woke with her hair extensions covered in her sick.
'I was shocked I'd been in such a state,' said Nicola.
But despite being told her drinking is a form of self-harm, Nicola insists she is fighting fit.
'I'm not an alcoholic. I've always been healthy,' she said.
'I'm living for the day, not for the rest of my life.'