UK News

Alcohol Deaths Double
Tuesday, 18th July 2006, 16:42
Category: Healthy Living
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Alcohol deaths have more than doubled in the last decade because of binge
drinking youngsters, shocking Government figures released today reveal.

The Office for National Statistics revealed there were 8,380 deaths in the
UK that were directly linked to alcohol in 2004, the latest year for which
data is available, compared with just 4,144 in 1991.

The biggest rises and highest death rates were for men and women aged 35-54,
suggesting that binge-drinking youngsters in their 20s are lining themselves
up for a slow death by chronic liver disease in later life.

Alcohol Concern said the huge rise was "worrying" and warned it was due to
an increase in heavy drinking among young people, which the Government had
failed to address.

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Rowdy Yates
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Scottish Addiction Studies
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University of Stirling

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