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    Deaths from alcohol in England at record high
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    Deaths from alcohol in England at record high

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    2. YeahMateYouWish on

      It’s time to legalise weed brothers and sisters, no hangovers or cirrhosis of the liver, no getting pissed up and fighting the world. Just some jelly sweets and movies.

      Edit: Guys, you can all stop replying the same thing. Nobody cares that you had a bad one when you smoked once, and nobody is saying weed is perfectly safe. Neither of these things are relevant to legalisation. Look up what a strawman argument is because I’m so tired of trying to teach you all what they are.

    4. amazingusername100 on

      Well living in England is pretty depressing right now….more than ever tbh. My cat dying earlier this year was the straw that broke the camels back for me and I went on medication rather than alcohol.
      Good news is I feel much better (but still miss my cat terribly).

    5. davus_maximus on

      If we legalised and installed Futurama-style suicide booths, which would be the biggest demographic using them?

      I’m gonna guess the under 40s.

    6. depressedblondeguy on

      Wonder how this is the case? Home drinking? I live near Blackpool and the pubs and town center are quiet now, even on Friday and Saturday nights

    7. Fukthisite on

      Next person to say weed should remain illegal who likes to have a drink is getting a big fat internet slap. 🤣

    8. Professional_Ad_9101 on

      No coincidence it’s since 2019. COVID, cost of living, people are sad and stressed.

    9. Reasonable-Aerie-590 on

      Always a sign of a healthy society when people are drinking themselves to death in record numbers

    11. Impressive-Eye9874 on

      Generally speaking those most impacted aren’t the ones going to the pub twice a week, they sit on park benches or where they live drinking economy liquor. The government consistently goes after the wrong targets.

    12. Due_Engineering_108 on

      If alcohol was a new product it would be banded for the harm it causes. Now I’m not suggesting we do ban it but it’s time that education over the harm it does to the human body is better communicated. I gave up drinking at the start of this year and it’s been great, I was not a big drinker over the previous few years but I’ve certainly seen the benefits. With all the alcohol free options that are now available I still go to the pub with my mates, I just don’t get a hangover the next day.

    13. bobblebob100 on

      It takes many many years (ive read in some instances 20yrs) for drinking at high levels to impact your health/liver. So the cases we are seeing now didnt do the damage recently

    16. Yeoman1877 on

      Are deaths from alcohol really higher than in the past or are they simply being recorded as such more accurately than hitherto? It has been widely reported that alcohol consumption is declining.

    18. Random_Reddit_bloke on

      Alcohol is awful. Destructive to the individual and society. If someone discovered alcohol today it would be a class A substance. The way people have normalised substance abuse in the context of alcohol is bewildering.

      The fact that anyone can go out and buy as much alcohol as they like, while other, far less harmful substances are illegal is absurd.

    19. Overstaying_579 on

      Labour and Conservatives: I’m going to pretend I didn’t see that.

      (Insert some comment about how cannabis should be legal for recreational use or something like that because there’s been far less deaths from cannabis than alcohol).

      Also Labour and Conservatives: I’m also going to pretend I didn’t hear that.

      Have I told you the definition of insanity?

    21. superioso on

      I wonder if average age increasing has caused this. The baby boomer generation are known to have drank/drink a lot more than other generations, they are a big group and maybe with age and drinking through the decades it’s caught up to them.

    22. Pikebbocc on

      Great headline BBC. Population rises year on year so that’s completely expected. We need to know deaths per 1000 for that to have any meaning.