Denis Campbell, health correspondent of the British newspaper The Guardian, said that experts call for urgent action to reduce 'unacceptably high' death toll from diseases directly linked to drinking.
In the United Kingdom, the experts predict that over 90,800 people could die the next ten years because of diseases related with alcohol like chronic hepatitis, alcoholic liver disease or alcohol poisoning. A research made by Professor Martin Plant, of the University of the West of England, give as result that alcoholism and deaths due to drinking in the U.K. have risen to over the last 25 years to become one of the highest in the European continent.
The over 90,000 deaths predicted for the next decade does not include deaths caused by drink-driving or those related with the exacerbation of an illness because of the alcohol, like some kind of cancers could be.
One way to reduce drink-related deaths could be to implement measures like establish a minimum price per unit of alcohol. In Scotland the introduction of this measure is being explored.
British government is extremely worried about the alcohol related problems. The number of alcohol-related deaths has risen in every age group since 1990. That’s why the government is working harder than ever -says Gillian Merron, public health minister- to help alcoholics and reduce alcohol-related deaths.
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