England has experienced a record number of deaths caused by alcohol, indicating a very serious problem for the public health authorities. Recently, it became known that drinking too much has led to a dramatic rise in matured liver diseases, as well as alcohol poisoning, in particular among younger age groups. The experts think the increase is due to stress caused by the pandemic situation and changes in people’s social lives.
The National Health Service has been campaigning for stronger control and regulation of the sale and advertisement of alcohol. To arrest the situation whole of country public relations programmes on the subject of the dangers of irresponsible drinking are being employed. Besides, advocates for the public health service are calling for more funds to be allocated to addiction treatment programs.
A serious problem of this crisis is the unequal treatment that poor people in the community get. The present unemployment rate at the very time causes people to drink excessively as a method of coping, thus widening the health disparity all the more throughout the country.
The policymakers, in many ways, encourage steps such as the imposition of higher alcohol taxes and restrictions on late-night sales. The main objective here is to make accessibility for such a solution less and for people to desist from over-drinking.
Yet the foes of the initiatives argue that they should be embedded into relevant structural strategies like mental health and socioeconomic equality, without which alcohol-induced deaths can only continue their upward trend over the next several years. The truth is that.
The government intends to publicize a comprehensive report at the start of the next month to show its long-term policy in the campaign against the use of alcohol. Public health leaders are eager this plan will prioritize prevention and early intervention and, in the same breadth, expand access to services associated with treatment.
