Friday August 26, 2011 12:05:17 PM, IANS

London: Data available in Britain shows there were 1.1 million alcohol-related admissions in hospitals across the country last year -- that means over 3,000 people were taken to health centres every day.

Authors of the report at the Liverpool John Moores University believe this was due to the increased availability of cheap alcohol, Sky News reported.

The report of 2009-10 showed a wide variation across the country in rates of hospitalisation, with 3,114 admissions per 100,000 people in Liverpool, dropping to 850 per 100,000 on the Isle of Wight.

Mark Bellis, a university official, said: "Cheap alcohol is no longer a commodity that this country can afford. The scale of damage revealed by these profiles shows that alcohol is a problem for everyone in Britain."

"Even those families not directly affected by alcohol-related health problems, violence or abuse still pay towards the billions in taxes for the policing, health services and social support required to tackle this national problem."

Other details, drawn from official crime statistics, shows there were 392,787 crimes attributable to alcohol in 2010-11 - equating to 7.6 crimes per 1,000 people.

The highest rates of crime linked to drinking by region occurred in London, with 11.7 crimes per 1,000 residents.

 

Home | Top of the Page

Top Stories

Parliament to discuss three versions of Lokpal bill Friday: Khurshid

Parliament will discuss three versions of the Lokpal bill Friday, Law Minister Salman Khurshid said here Thursday. "We will discuss the   »

Government agrees to Team Anna's conditions: Deshmukh

LNJP Hospital gears up to receive Hazare

PM, parliament urge Anna to end fast

  Most Read

Advani sees flaws in Jan Lokpal Bill, says it can't get passed

Some provisions of the Jan Lokpal bill had inherent flaws and parliament would find it difficult to pass it in its present form, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani said Friday in  »

Lesser-known Annas also fast across the country

Away from media glare, many people across India have been fasting in solidarity with social activist Anna Hazare, whose 10-day-old fast against corruption has caught global attention. The condition of some of  »

Disbelief, praise and fear in Dinesh Yadav's village

  News Pick

Rajya Sabha passes teachers' education council bill

The Rajya Sabha Thursday passed a bill for re-creating a national body to regulate schools and teachers. The National Council of Teachers Education (Amendment) Bill, 2010 was passed by the upper house, restoring the    »

Is tobacco plastic sachet ban being implemented, SC asks

More than five months after the ban on the use of plastic pouches to pack chewing tobacco and pan masala came into effect, the Supreme Court Thursday asked the government to report how its proscription order  »

In Bihar, two and a half days of floods have been turned into a two-and-a-half-month-long affair so that the politics over relief continues, says one of India's leading river researchers. Solutions to tackle the recurring "man-made"   »

Two Indians and two persons of Indian origin figure among Top 35 Innovators under 35 in the latest list of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Technology Review, the world's oldest Technology Magazine  »

Picture of the Day

Anna mocks Congress charge of RSS, BJP support. But in Malegaon, BJP is using hoardings to garner support for Hazare. Also, there are good number of BJP workers and hardcore RSS activists in the rallies called to support Hazare.

(Photo: ummid.com)