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Published on: 07/12/2021 07:37 PMReported by: editor
The UK’s lockdown drinking habits may have had led to deaths caused by alcohol in 2020 to increase by almost 19%. The biggest rise since records began, according to the Office for National Statistics.
There were 8,974 deaths related to alcohol-specific causes registered in the UK in 2020, equivalent to 14.0 deaths per 100,000 people. That was 1,409 more deaths (a 18.6% increase) than in 2019 when there were 7,565 registered deaths, equivalent to 11.8 deaths per 100,000 people.
Between 2012 and 2019, rates of alcohol-specific deaths in the UK have remained stable, with no statistically significant differences in the year-on-year rates. However, the rates seen in 2020 are statistically significantly higher than 2019 and any other year since 2001, when there were 10.6 deaths per 100,000 people.
- In 2020, there were 8,974 deaths (14.0 per 100,000 people) from alcohol-specific causes registered in the UK, an 18.6% increase compared with 2019 (7,565 deaths; 11.8 per 100,000 people) and the highest year-on-year increase since the data time series began in 2001.
- Between 2012 and 2019, rates of alcohol-specific deaths in the UK have remained stable, but a statistically significant increase was seen in 2020.
- Consistent with previous years, the rate of alcohol-specific deaths for males in 2020 remained more than double the rate for females (19.0 and 9.2 deaths per 100,000 people respectively, registered in 2020).
- Scotland and Northern Ireland had the highest rates of alcohol-specific deaths in 2020 (21.5 and 19.6 deaths per 100,000 people respectively).
- Comparing with 2019, the alcohol-specific death rate has risen across all four UK constituent countries, but statistically significant increases were only seen in England and Scotland.
Age breakdown of deaths
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And that's without including all those deaths and life-changing injuries caused to others through driving whilst inebriated.......For the victims of alcohol, booze is bad news. Imo it's way too cheap anyway, yet the Govt always shies away from the problem by not taxing it more heavily, for fear of losing votes - duh!
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If you drink enough to kill yourself then your alcohol addiction is the problem not a covid lockdown.
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Originally Posted by The PNP
And that's without including all those deaths and life-changing injuries caused to others through driving whilst inebriated.......For the victims of alcohol, booze is bad news. Imo it's way too cheap anyway, yet the Govt always shies away from the problem by not taxing it more heavily, for fear of losing votes - duh!
The problem with taxing it is the higher the tax the higher the smuggling, it's just like tobacco there appears to be as much dodgy stuff around as legit stuff.
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Its always somebody elses fault!!!!!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by salus.populi
If you drink enough to kill yourself then your alcohol addiction is the problem not a covid lockdown.
So the stats are wrong then? The peak in alcohol abuse and related deaths didn't happen?
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Originally Posted by TowerAndSteeple
So the stats are wrong then? The peak in alcohol abuse and related deaths didn't happen?
Not disputing the stats but covid and lockdowns don't force you to drink to excess.
More like people with a drink problem choosing to drink more, probably because they were paying supermarket prices rather than pub prices.
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