Alcohol-related deaths

[bodbloke]

Roughly how many people die from alcohol related illness or accident every year?

[snotmonkey]

deaths by alchol miss use are estimated at around 33,000 a year while the affects on britains economy is staggering �2.8bn is lost through sickness and unemployment and the alchol concern study found that it costs nearly �200m for the nhs to treat drink related illness. road accidents where alchol is a factor cost �189m and crime linked with alchol abuse is �68m then there is alchol related suicides, spousal abuse and child neglect accidental fires and drownings. alchol and people are a winning combonation

[amiwright]

As an update to the previous answer I must add the �200 million cost to the NHS to treat alcohol related illness is bullsh*t. Without the tax raised by alcohol the NHS would collapse. Also without the dutch courage of alcohol, used by British WWII pilots in the battle of Britain etc, England would have lost the war. The stress produced by poor working conditions is estimated to cost British industy �10.5 billion. alcohol goes some way in reducing this figure. Alcohol reduces suicides. Alcohol is prooven to be beneficial to health. Your question is misleading as its fundamental assumption is incorrect. Most accidents happen to sober people. Alcohol also increase intelligence, something obviously lacking in the poster of the previous answer, and this question.

[snotmonkey]

yep you're are right alchol makes you more intelligent, spot on. it also makes you better looking, far more interesting and a out and out star with the ladies. and again sobber people do have more work related accidents probably because most employees have more sense than to go to work drunk. plus you're comment about ww2 piolots is an insult to the gallant men whos bravery should be celebrated and never forgotten to say they only done their duty as they were "tanked up" is an outrage i suppose you want to argue the pros off canabis next, maybe the advantages of shooting up skag, how an evening out can be made special with ecstacy but i'll finish the way your comment should "alchol makes me a better driver"

[oblique]

amiwright your ship has arrived to take you home, your people sure missed you while you were gone. from a recent New Scientist: "british deaths for which drugs were blamed" in 2000 for alchol stand @ aprx 350, coming third to methadone @ 480/90 and heroin @ over 550. sounds quite small really, considering the previous figure was 33000 a year. however, i suspect that alcohol deaths in this report may not encompass alchol related incidents such as drinkdriving etc, just deaths directly attributable. so in fact this may be of no use to you whatsoever. in addition to this, it may interest you to know that the deaths in 2000 relating to ecstacy is aprx 50, well below that of sedatives and antidepressants both over 150. cannabis does not even register. so far from arguing the pros of cannabis, considering it doesn't kill, this isn't necessary. also given that ecstacy deaths are also so minimal, being far less than supposedly benificial drugs such as antidepressants and legal ones such as alcohol, the associated reputation is likely to a be a product of the media. a balanced and informed view is always better than one based on yours and your paper's ignorance, snotmonkey.