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90,800 people could die an avoidable death due to alcohol by 2019

19 Oct 2009

Research from the Alcohol & Health Research Unit at the University of the West of England and Alcohol Concern shows that 90,800 people could die avoidable deaths from alcohol-related causes by 2019 if we continue to drink at the average rate of the past 15 years.

‘Future Proof – Can We Afford the Cost of Drinking Too Much – Alcohol Consumption, Mortality & Morbidity’ (Alcohol & Health Research Unit, Centre for Public Health Research, University of the West of England). Key findings attached.

For more information go to Alcohol Concern.