Deaths from alcohol have increased in Glasgow in the last year according to the latest report.
Deaths from alcohol have increased in Glasgow in the last year according to the latest statistics.In Glasgow, there were 202 alcohol-specific deaths in 2022 up from 188 the year before a rise of 7.5%.Across Scotland, the rise was 2% with 1276 people dying with alcohol a specific cause.
Since minimum pricing was introduced in 2018 deaths have gone from 1020 the following year to 1276 last year. And there has been a bigger rise among women with female deaths rising by 31 to 440, and male deaths unchanged at 836. “We will continue to work closely with Alcohol and Drug Partnerships and the third sector to address this public“This year £113 million will be made available to ADPs to support local and national initiatives ensuring that local services can respond to local needs.”Opposition politicians and campaigners said the figures showed the current policies are not working.
“It is clear that the SNP wedding themselves to their flagship policy of minimum unit pricing is simply not working. It is increasingly proving to be a blunt instrument to tackle a complex problem.”
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