Nearly 300 children a year are being treated in A&E across Tayside due to injury or illness caused by alcohol.
New figures have revealed the scale of the impact of booze on youngsters in the region.
In the last five years, a total of 1,468 youngsters aged 17 or under have wound up in NHS Tayside A&E departments as a knock-on effect of alcohol.
The reasons for them needing medical treatment range from having consumed liquor through to injuries sustained in a car crash caused by a drunk driver.
Older children aged 15, 16 and 17 are most commonly treated in A&E, with 530 17-year-olds being treated since 2010.
A total of 23 one-year-olds have also been taken to A&E as a result of alcohol. A further seven have been fully admitted to hospital.
In addition, 16 babies under the age of one have been seen by A&E medics because of injuries caused by alcohol, as have 16 two-year-olds and 10 children aged three.
Between January 1 and July 15 this year, 118 people under the age of 18 were treated in A&E over alcohol.
Alison Todd, chief executive of Children 1st, called the findings particularly related to infants “desperately sad”.
She added: “It is concerning that very young children are being treated for alcohol-related issues.”
A spokeswoman for NHS Tayside said the figures did not mean youngsters were necessarily consuming alcohol.
She said that the figures contained any admissions for alcohol-related incidents, which could, for instance, include a child injured during a drink-driving incident.