Prescription drugs to treat alcohol top £3m

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There were a million hospital admissions related to alcohol last year in England and £3.13m was spent on prescription drugs to treat alcohol dependency.

The Health and Social Care Information Centre's latest report shows that 65% of adults admitted were men, but more under-16 girls than boys were admitted.

Frequent drinking among men and women continues to fall.

Deaths from alcohol in England also decreased by 4% to 6,490.

The HSCIC figures, contained in Statistics on Alcohol - England, 2014 uses a number of sources of information to calculate alcohol-related hospital admissions.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-27618247
 
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