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Only patients with liver problems who are the heaviest drinkers would be affected by a minimum price for alcohol, experts have said.
Nine in 10 low risk drinkers would not be affected at all if the Government were to introduce a 50p minimum unit price for booze, a study suggests.
Meanwhile the impact on spending on alcohol would be 200 times higher for patients with liver disease who were drinking at harmful levels than for low-risk drinkers, researchers said.
Experts from the University of Southampton examined 404 liver patients and asked them how much they pay for alcohol.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/only-heaviest-drinkers-affected-alcohol-7545072
Nine in 10 low risk drinkers would not be affected at all if the Government were to introduce a 50p minimum unit price for booze, a study suggests.
Meanwhile the impact on spending on alcohol would be 200 times higher for patients with liver disease who were drinking at harmful levels than for low-risk drinkers, researchers said.
Experts from the University of Southampton examined 404 liver patients and asked them how much they pay for alcohol.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/only-heaviest-drinkers-affected-alcohol-7545072