Alcohol Abuse in the News

Staff drinking gives employers an £8.4bn hangover
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Alcohol abuse cost the workplace and the wider economy an estimated £8.4bn every year, while costing English society £22.1bn per year, it revealed. In the North East, where a third of adults surpass the daily recommended limit, an estimated 636,786 …
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Survey: Substance abuse down in past three years among students
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When the survey was given in May, 38.8 percent of 10th-graders and 39.8 percent of 12th-graders said they used alcohol in the past 30 days. About 32 percent of 10th-graders and 33.5 percent of 12th-graders said they had used tobacco in the past month.
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Addiction plays role in state's deadly diagnosis
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"Alcohol, tobacco and other drugs are the biggest problems McDowell County has," said Whitt, who is also executive director of McDowell County FACES, which stands for Families, Agencies, Children Enhancing Services. Just how big of a problem?
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