Alcohol deaths in England and Wales have reached the highest levels in 20 years following a sharp rise since the start of COVID lockdown, according to government data released on Thursday. The figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) showed there had been 7,423 deaths directly cau...
Drug abuse or substance abuse includes misuse of illicit drugs, various psychoactive substances, and abuse of legal substances such as prescription drugs and alcohol. It is estimated that around 5.8 percent of the global population are users of illicit drugs. Furthermore, in 2021, over 39 million...
Alcohol聽will cause around 135,000 cancer deaths over the next 20 years and will cost the NHS an estimated 拢2 billion in treatments, according to estimates from a new report by Sheffield University, commissioned by Cancer Research UK**.鈥淭hese new figures reveal the devastating impact alcohol...
Deaths from liver cirrhosis have increased at least 8 fold since the 1970's in the UK and further increases are anticipated, whereas in the rest of Europe liver deaths are decreasing. In the UK, we urgently need strategies to detect those who misuse alcohol and are at risk of developing ...
The researchers used a computer model to work out the numbers of alcohol-related cancer deaths, hospital admissions(入院)and total costs to NHS over the next 20 years. The study shows that a fifth of men and 1 in 10 women have alcohol every day—many of these are middle-aged and middle...
But researchers say this guidance isn’t enough and want the government to increase a little price per unit of alcohol. 【1】What can we learn from the text? A. Fewer people will die of cancer in the future B. Alcohol will be the only cause of cancer deaths C. More and more people...
Increasing funding to drug and alcohol intervention services Improving funding for other health and social care provisions to prevent and tackle harm The past ten years of cuts to addiction services and a reluctance to treat the symptoms and not the root causes are leading to avoidable deaths. Ho...
Further to the legal aspect, there are also various initiatives that have been put in place to reduce the amount of driving while under the influence in the United Kingdom. Programs such as the “designated driver” system, where one person abstains from drinking alcohol to drive, have been...
Objective To estimate deaths from passive smoking in employees of the hospitality industry as well as in the general workforce and general population of th... Jamrozik,K. - BMJ 被引量: 293发表: 2005年 Alcohol, smoking, passive smoking and caffeine in relation to breast cancer risk in young...
"We have already increased the number of people in drug and alcohol treatment by over 17,000, recruited 1,255 drug and alcohol workers and are expanding the availability of life-saving naloxone to prevent more tragic deaths."