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Saturday, August 30, 2008

Dramatic increase in women alcoholics

Published: 30 Aug 08

Alcoholism among women in Sweden increased by 50 percent to 100,000 between 2003 and 2007, a new report from the National Institute of Public Health has shown.

The number of men classified as alcoholics has increased by 25 percent to 165,000 over the period, the study shows.

Sven Andréasson, chief physician at Stockholm's addiction centre and head of the institute's alcohol and narcotics department, gave his view of the reasons behind the development in a full-page opinion article in Dagens Nyheter on Saturday.

"Alcohol taxes have been cut, private imports have increased, the number of restaurant alcohol licences has increased, (and) opening hours have been extended at both restaurants and state liquor stores."

"It is well known that the concentration of licences premises and opening hours have a significant effect on violence and other alcohol related problems," he argued.

The study was conducted from 2003-2007 in 12 municipalities across Sweden. It showed that alcoholism had increased despite the fact that total alcohol consumption has remained unchanged for several years.
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