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One in eight British adults dies of alcohol
Friday May 18, 2012 09:59:21 AM,
IANS
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London:
One in eight deaths of British adults under the age of 64 is
caused due to alcohol, an international conference on tackling
problem drinking has been told.
For every European, the social cost of alcohol abuse has been
estimated to be 240 pounds a year, with the annual bill for the
National Health Service (NHS) alone being 2.7 billion pounds, the
Daily Mail reported.
A major conference of addiction specialists from across the world
is meeting at Newcastle University. Organisers have called for
England to follow Scotland and set a minimum price per unit and
also sought a ban on advertising alcohol.
Eileen Kaner, a professor, cited new research which showed one in
eight British deaths of people aged 15 to 64 was caused by
alcohol.
In Europe, alcohol consumption is more than twice the global
average and represents the biggest addiction in Britain, greater
than any illegal drug or gambling.
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