Friday, July 5, 2019

The price of alcohol

One in 10 people in a hospital bed in the UK are alcohol-dependent and one in five are doing themselves harm by their drinking, according to research that quantifies for the first time the massive burden to the NHS of Britain’s drinking culture.
And most likely significantly higher in Ireland.

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