UK Health Radio
Medical News Update
The Rising Cost of Alcohol Abuse
The BBC have reported that there were a million
hospital admissions related to alcohol last year in England and £3.13m was
spent on prescription drugs to treat alcohol dependency.
The Health
and Social Care Information Centre's has shown that 65% of the adults admitted
were men, but more girls under than boys in the same age group were admitted.
Overall however, frequent drinking among men and women continues to fall and
deaths from alcohol in England also decreased by 4%.
The
figures, contained in Statistics on Alcohol England 2014 has a number of sources of
information that are used to calculate alcohol-related hospital admissions.
The
centre also gauges drinking behaviour among adults and schoolchildren in
England.
Its
report shows that the majority of the over a million adult hospital admissions
in England related to alcohol last year were male patients.
But
females were in the majority in the under 16’s, with almost two and a half thousand
admitted in 2012-13, compared with 1,890 males under 16’s.
The
North East of England recorded the highest rate of alcohol-related admissions
and the South East recorded the lowest.
The cost of prescribing drugs to treat alcohol dependency rose by around
£200,000 in 2012. This is the first time the tally has reached £3m.
However,
its not all bad news as although this cost is increasing, the HSCIC Health
Survey for England indicates that the percentage of people in Great Britain who
drink regularly is decreasing.
Amanda Thomas
UK Health Radio
Medical News Update
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