Excessive alcohol misuse in the community and the social and economic consequences that result.'
Alcohol misuse can be defined as "the use of alcohol such as to damage or threaten to damage the health or social adjustment of the user, or those persons directly affected by his or her drinking." (http://hcna.radcliffe-oxford.com/alcoholmisuse.htm). Alcohol misuse has great effects on the community as it is associated with poor health, crime, disorder and social and economic harms. The UK has some of the "most serious issues associated with alcohol misuse." (http://www.go-ne.gov.uk/gone/docs/communitysafety/alcohol_misuse.pdf).
Over £20 billion a year is the figure known as the cost of alcohol misuse to society. There are three times more alcohol-related deaths than drug-related deaths in the UK each year. Female drinkers, aged 18-24, are drinking in larger quantities, and more frequently, than their male counterparts. Nationally, there are 1.2 million incidents of......
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