Monday 20 October 2014

You LIke to Drink Alcohol? Then you better read this

The 'alcopop generation' are paying the price for growing up with widely available access to alcohol
The ‘alcopop generation’ is dying needlessly from liver disease fuelled by alcohol and obesity, a report warns.
Experts say young Britons are paying the price of growing up with cheap drink available round the clock.
A report by Public Health England today calls for tackling liver disease to be made a national priority because ‘young lives are being needlessly lost’.
There are nearly 11,000 deaths from liver disease a year in England, including victims in their 20s.
This rate has increased by 40 per cent in a little over a decade even though it is falling everywhere else in Europe. 
The report warns that in some areas of the country the death rate for men is four times higher than others due to differing levels of alcohol and obesity. 
Blackpool and Manchester have the highest rates at 58.4 per 100,000 people and 54.9 per 100,000 respectively. 

At the other end of the scale Central Bedfordshire has just 13 per 100,000 and Hertfordshire has 13.6 per 100,000.
Professor Julia Verne, Lead for Liver Disease at Public Health England, said: ‘Liver disease is a public health priority because young lives are being needlessly lost.
‘Liver disease is needlessly killing young people, people of working age.
‘We must do more to raise awareness, nationally and locally, and this is why it is so important for the public and health professionals to understand their local picture.’
Emily Robinson, Deputy Chief Executive of Alcohol Concern said: ‘The country is in danger of losing the battle against liver disease, which goes against the trend in much of the rest of Europe where many of our neighbours are actually making progress.
‘It’s a tragedy that we’re actually seeing cases of young people in their twenties dying of alcoholic liver disease, when this can be prevented.
‘The so called ‘alcopops generation’ have grown up in a society where alcohol is available at almost anytime, anywhere, at incredibly cheap prices and promoted nonstop.’

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A report found there are nearly 11,000 deaths from liver disease a year in England, including victims in their 20s
The report shows that areas with the highest death rate have the most pubs for their population.
In Blackpool there is one pub to 72 people compared to one pub for 281 people in Hertfordshire.
Figures show that the number of people who died from liver disease in England rose from 7,841 in 2001 to 10,948 in 2012.
Andrew Langford, Chief Executive of The British Liver Trust, said: ‘These profiles, which were urgently needed, will begin to address the devastating rise of poor liver health throughout the country and reduce unnecessary deaths of increasingly younger people from liver disease.’
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