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Sunday, November 15, 2009

'Make minimum alcohol price 45p per unit'


A GOVERNMENT adviser has called for the minimum price for alcohol to be set at 45p per unit to cover the social, policing and health costs of binge drinking in Scotland.

Professor Anne Ludbrook, the head of Aberdeen University’s health and economics research unit, said the charge was the minimum required to cover the £2.25 billion annual cost of problem drinking. . . . . . .

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