Studies show alcohol-related harm is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in Australia, causing about 3000 deaths and 65,000 hospitalisations every year.

Monash Medical Centre emergency medicine director Tony Kambourakis said the statistics didn't include a multitude of other problems caused by binge drinking.

"Binge drinking hurts our hospital and emergency services and puts a drain on resources. It affects staff [and] hurts parents and the loved ones of those that are involved. It also hurts the people themselves.

It's not only medical costs they might end up paying, they could actually get behind the wheel of a car and kill somebody."

He said most young people didn't realise that binge drinking could cause permanent or long-term organ damage; and that the most common causes of alcohol related death in young people were road injuries and assaults.

He said binge drinking was a "massive" problem and backed the Federal Government's anti-binge drinking campaign 'Don't Turn A Night Out Into A Nightmare'.

"It's the responsibility of the community to set the standards of what's acceptable behaviour for young people because they will do what they see around them."