An area of Lancashire has the highest rate of alcohol-specific deaths in the whole country, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics. Record numbers of people are dying ...

The number of women dying from alcohol-related issues has increased by over a third, according to the latest statistics. For many years, severe alcohol misuse has remained more common among men.

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The number of Scots dying from alcohol abuse has reached a 15-year high with the impact of repeated covid lockdowns blamed for a rise in heavy drinking. Deaths from drinking have steadily increased ...

The number of deaths caused by alcohol has hit a record high - with one area of Lancashire having the second highest rate of alcohol-specific deaths in the whole country. In 2023, 10,473 people in ...

Methanol is highly poisonous and can lead to visual disturbances, vomiting, dizziness, organ failure and, in the worst case, death. Because of high taxes on alcohol, many Turkish have taken to ...

“As well as specific public health interventions to prevent deaths from drugs, alcohol and suicide, we need to move further and faster with Levelling Up in England to tackle the underlying ...

A former police officer said he feared he would die from alcohol abuse. Eurwyn Thomas, 47, from Caernarfon, Gwynedd, was with North Wales Police for 19 years but left as he waited to be sentenced ...

According to an autopsy, his blood alcohol concentration was .362 percent at the time of his death — more than four times the state’s legal limit for operating a motor vehicle, .08 percent.