Drinking kills more Scottish people
Categories: Diet & Weight Loss
Recent research suggests that men and women in Scotland are twice as likely to suffer an alcohol-related death than their UK counterparts. Between 2002 and 2004, nearly 4 out of every 10,000 Scots died of alcohol-related causes, compared with only 1.7 Brits.
But that's not to say the UK is a pillar of moderate consumption. In 2004, the country saw 8,221 alcohol-related deaths, which is nearly double the 1991 figure.
In response, Scotland is implementing a new action plan to tackle the problem of alcohol abuse, which includes substance-abuse programming in schools, and an extension of a pilot initiative in which teenagers try and purchase alcohol to "string" shopkeepers that sell to minors.
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Don 2-22-2007 @ 1:22PM
You would get drunk too if you lived on a cold island in
the middle of no where.
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