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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

News Release - 90,000 PEOPLE COULD DIE AS A RESULT OF THEIR DRINKING OVER NEXT TEN YEARS

Almost 100,000 people could die over the next ten years as a direct result of their drinking, a charity has today warned. Research from the Alcohol & Health Research Unit at the University of the West of England and Alcohol Concern shows that 90,800 people could die avoidable deaths from alcohol-related causes by 2019 if we continue to drink at the average rate of the past 15 years.

The research maps the whole population’s level of drinking with the number of deaths from alcohol-related causes. The new findings also show there has been a trebling of deaths from 3,054 in 1984 to 8,999 in 2008, as consumption has increased over the past 25 years. . . . . .


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