{"id":6527,"date":"2010-05-01T11:19:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T11:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=6527"},"modified":"2010-05-15T13:55:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T13:55:32","slug":"steady-rise-in-deaths-from-heavy-drinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2010\/05\/steady-rise-in-deaths-from-heavy-drinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Steady rise in deaths from heavy drinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><br \/>\nA steady rise in long-term heavy drinking has led to a doubling of alcohol-related deaths among men over the past decade, according to official figures.<br \/>\nThe study of \u201cpreventable mortality\u201d found that the rate of alcohol-related deaths had risen sharply among women too, with two thirds more dying of diseases such as cirrhosis over the period.<br \/>\nThe rise in alcohol-related deaths is in stark contrast to sharp falls in the rest of the top five \u201cpreventable causes of mortality\u201d.<br \/>\nLung cancer and other pulmonary diseases are both down by a third, while suicide is down by 14 per cent. The data were released in the Office for National Statistics\u2019 quarterly survey of the nation\u2019s health.<br \/>\nAlcohol Concern said that the biggest increase in alcohol-related deaths was among those aged 35 to 54, a generation of people who started drinking heavily in their youth and carried on into middle age.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: From The Times Online May 25, 2007<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A steady rise in long-term heavy drinking has led to a doubling of alcohol-related deaths among men over the past decade, according to official figures. The study of \u201cpreventable mortality\u201d found that the rate of alcohol-related deaths had risen sharply among women too, with two thirds more dying of diseases such as cirrhosis over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}