Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as large as it needs to be? ~Author Unknown
According to a British physician, alcohol abuse is the “new lung cancer.” Dr. John Lowes of Torbay Hospital said he is treating increasingly young patients in Devon who are dying from alcohol-related illness. In the past three years, 642 people under the age of 18 from Devon, Torbay and Plymouth have been admitted to the hospital for alcohol-related problems like liver disease or alcohol poisoning.
In Torbay, more than 40 people under the age of 18 have received treatment for alcohol addiction in the last six months.
“We shall see an increasing epidemic as we did 20 or 30 years ago with lung cancer and cardiovascular disease with the effects of smoking,” said Lowes. “We’re going to see the same with the effects of alcohol on our population with people being admitted for a whole range of alcohol-related harm.”
Costs to Britain’s National Health Service are increasing as a result of this epidemic. Lowes believes that society is paying “a huge price” with the physical and social harm created by the effects of alcohol abuse.”
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