Heavy drinking teen released from hospital

A teenager who drank himself into an alcohol-induced coma has been released from Dunedin Hospital.

The 13-year-old was found in an alcohol-induced coma on Saturday night, while attending a New Zealand Snowsports junior training camp in Wanaka.

Police are investigating whether another boy stole the bottle of spirits he used to drink himself into a coma.

It was believed peer-pressure had led him to consume a bottle of Jagermeister in about 20 minutes.

- NZPA