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Re: The costs of Alcohol Abuse
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Originally Posted by Damien
Same with the obesity thread yesterday. Alcohol and general diet are such huge issues for our health and consequentially the NHS. I can still never get over the statistic that diabetes, although not all diabetes is obesity-related, costs the NHS 10% of its budget: https://www.nhs.uk/news/diabetes/dia...icted-to-rise/
Crazy. Better diets and ideally a cure for diabetes would give such a massive boost to the NHS finances. |
Having been to A&E and hospitals on a pretty regular basis over the last 20 years the amount of people up there with alcohol induced problems is just simply staggering going by my own observations.
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