Tackling the pricing on alcohol is a priority to ease ‘urgent crisis’ here, says top medic.
The president of the Royal College of Physicians (RCPI) has said minimum unit pricing on alcohol is the single most important step in easing the “urgent crisis” in Ireland caused by excessive drinking.
Prof Frank Murray made the comments during a presentation this week at an all-island conference on alcohol.
The RCPI president, who is also a gastroenterologist and hepatologist at the Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, said he did not want prohibition of alcohol but believed the voices of those damaged or killed by alcohol were rarely heard and admitted that he was “disturbed by the huge burden of excessive alcohol consumption in Ireland”.
Source: Irish Examiner, 01/03/2017
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