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Friday, September 11, 2009

Drink and drugs a leading cause of youth deaths
Sarah Boseley, health editor
The Guardian, Friday 11 September 2009

The deaths of more than 3,000 young people in the UK every year could be prevented and many are precipitated by Britain's drink and drugs culture, a leading child health expert claims.

"Britain has much higher rates of alcohol and drug misuse than many other high income countries," said Russell Viner, from the Institute of Child Health, in London, one of the authors of a global study on the scale and causes of adolescent deaths published today by the Lancet medical journal. . . . . .


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