Number of patients with drink-related illnesses is up 5% in England, despite drop in number of Britons who binge-drink, or partake at all
The number of hospital admissions in England related to alcohol consumption rose by 5% from 2013 to 2014, continuing an upward trend that has seen drink-related cases more than double over the past decade.
There were an estimated 1,059,210 admissions attributed to an alcohol-related disease, injury or condition – up from 493,760 in 2003/04 – according to statistics published on Thursday by the Health and Social Care Information Centre. Almost half of admissions in 2013-14 were due to cardiovascular disease.
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