The number of young women dying because of alcohol in Britain has doubled in the last decade or so, even though the overall trend for alcohol-related deaths in Britain is downwards.
The findings, based on a study of drinking habits in three major cities, are published in a report today by medical researchers, who blame cheaper drinks and increased availability of alcohol for the rise in deaths among women, some of them as young as 25.
The increase in the death toll among women born between 1970 and 1979 began from the late 1990s, although it was noticed in medical statistics only from 2005 on.
Increases
Similar “disproportional increases” in alcohol-linked deaths were found over the same period in Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester.
Glasgow’s figures across all age groups remain the worst in Britain, according to the findings published today by the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Source: Mark Hennessy, Irish Times, 19/07/2013
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