Nearly One Million More People in England Addicted to Alcohol as Result of Lockdowns
Nearly one million people in England became addicted to alcohol as a result of Covid lockdowns, official data suggests. MailOnline has more.
Government polling before the pandemic estimated 1.5 million adults drank at least 50 units every week — the equivalent of three pints or nearly a bottle of wine every night.
But this jumped to just shy of 2.5 million this summer, which experts have blamed on the endless cycle of virus-controlling restrictions.
Dr Tony Rao, a world-renowned expert on alcohol misuse in older people at King’s College London, warned the impact of lockdowns had been “devastating”.
Alcohol charities said the data showed drinking in older people has reached a level of crisis “that is happening now”.
NHS guidelines recommend men and women do not drink more than 14 units a week.
Regularly drinking over the guideline amount can lead to dependence and health problems, including liver disease, heart disease and cancer.
It comes after Public Health England (PHE) figures last month revealed deaths directly caused by alcohol soared by 20% during the first year of the pandemic.
Dr Rao, a clinical research fellow, told MailOnline: “The impact of the Covid pandemic [he means the lockdowns] on alcohol use has been devastating.
“The latest data, taken together with the highest number of alcohol-specific deaths on record, is a stark warning for the Government.”
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This is quite disgraceful. The following email was sent to all NHS Hospital staff at 4:00pm on Friday for mandatory rules starting on Monday: Changes to Lateral Flow Testing requirements Non-vaccinated staff will be required to take daily lateral flow tests Please share with colleagues who don’t have access to email As the prevalence of COVID-19 in our community rises, so does the risk of staff spreading the infection to patients or colleagues. The best way to protect yourself and others from this risk is to be fully vaccinated, as there is good evidence that being vaccinated reduces the risk of you spreading the virus to other people. There is a much greater risk of you catching and spreading COVID-19 if you are unvaccinated. So to help protect patients and colleagues, from Monday 16 August we will be requiring staff who have not been vaccinated to take a lateral flow test each day before coming to work. This applies to all unvaccinated staff, regardless of role. You must also ensure that when you take the test you report the result on the online portal here: https://covid.sth.nhs.uk/lateralflowtest/. This can be done via a work or personal device. If you are unable to report your result… Read more »
Where can employers ask about your medical records.
http://www.workingrights.co.uk/health-issues-confidentiality.html
It is a good idea for people to do some research on their rights at work, please ensure you get your information/advice from a number of good sources – this one’s ok but light on important detail. Always start with contracts of employment, relevant risk assessments and policies – ask for them if you don’t have a copy or can’t easily find them. The same for any communications that have been issued during the course of the last 16mths. Read everything, check everything, ask for evidence/explanations if there are gaps. (England/Scotland) Re medical records, the employer shouldn’t request more than is needed for their specified purpose, and employees are able to ask for justification as to what information is being requested. Be aware that refusing a request for medical information won’t stop your employer from taking decisions about your employment.
This sounds like a particular NHS trust going rogue. Time to get the lawyers in and sue for institutional bullying, coercion and harassment on the grounds that there’s no evidence an unvaccinated member of staff poses any more risk to anyone else, colleagues or patients, than a vaccinated one.
Good grief.
The dystopian reality is ramping up.
“And coming in at number 26 in the mortality charts it’s ….. wait for it….C1984.
The good news …..you have to test for it daily before coming to work…even if you don’t feel poorly.
Oh do fuck off.
Yes but this way we can keep the phoney virus alive in the lemmings heads because the reality of the actual illness was never enough to convince anyone.2000 ,some people got ill ,some elederly peole died this also happened in 2019,2018,2017,2016,1974,1968 ,AD 32 etc etc you get my point
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Dear LS, I appreciate all your comments, but I, and surely other readers, are getting a bit weary of your sign off re Bracknell Stand in the Park on every single one of your many posts. We get it!
I’m guessing the majority of us live out of range of Bracknell. Maybe change it to endorse the SITP movement generally. No offence, just saying…..
I think the whole country has more important things to worry about that whether you are weary to a link to Stand in the Park.
This website NEVER promotes Stand in the Park and never promotes a single protest. It just reports the latest lockdown news. The more we promote Stand in the Park and Protests the better.
Or do you just want to look at website and wait for the next lockdown
Hey Germans dont go the cinema its not a problem only for the cinema who deserve to go out of business .Yes there is coercion ,persuasion ,even intimidation but its still benign and nothing we couldnt fight if we chose so stop fu—ng whinging about how the government made you do this or that .You ALL LET THEM ,there were no guns or torture this is not Nicaragua for fucks sake .
After reading that I think I need to get a stiff drink!
I’m the same piss head no change
Yes but what about the 1 million alcholics
I haven’t enjoyed the prison visiting day experience, aka going to the pub, since the doors slammed shut for the sombrero-flattening. I therefore drink less, and what I do costs a fraction of the money going over the bar.
What’s amazing is that the clown experts and rotten politicos that have caused these manifold consequences are only now moving from the “dim as a Toc-H lamp” stage to the next phase of enlightenment.
Tod h lamp not heard that in long time dim as one, my dads standard saying gone 18 years ago rip
Forces signal abbreviation from the Great War. Stands for “Talbot House”, rest place for troops, to keep them from brighter Red Lights. My grandfather, a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps, often used the expression when I was young.
Presumably Scotland long since reached peak alcoholism?
The Scots are addicted to Buckfast Tonic wine, made here in glorious Devon by the monks at Buckfast Abbey. There are the monks largest customers, the alcohol content is 15%.
Particularly in Glasgow, where it’s apparently the firm favourite with street drinkers on account of its low price but high alcohol content. And let’s face it, why else would anyone drink it? It tastes absolutely foul.
Typical of the Roman Catholic church that it doesn’t seem bothered about its product’s contribution to misery, of course.
Like most things, Buckfast (which represents only 0.5% of alcohol sales in Scotland) can be abused. Blaming the Roman Catholic Church for producing something that gets abused is rather unfair. You’d be better off having ago at the Ukraine, the world’s top producer of sunflower oil, which is nothing but a slow poison.
My point was that it is bought pretty much solely by alcoholics – it’s so disgusting that pretty much nobody else would drink it!
And let’s not forget that the RC church likes to claim the moral high ground.
Sadly you are misinformed, Buckfast is a right of passage for all teenage boys over the age of 13 onwards in Glasgow, especially in the east end. It is so bad there that requests were made by the Council to the good Monks of Buckfast to put the beverage into plastic bottles, such is the carnage that a bottle of Buckfast causes, but sadly they declined.
I love a happy ending
Well, living with Sturgeon, you would, wouldn’t you!?
Nope, there is always room for more here!
I don’t know about the addicted part but I hardly ever drank at home . I bought a home draught dispenser kit when the pubs were shut and didn’t bother going back into them when you couldn’t order at the bar and were surrounded by muzzleoids. Because it’s there you do drink more -it requires some effort to go to the pub.
Another brilliant side effect of the lockdown.
Personally i found my solace in spliff, for a while at least. Off it now, mostly. It’s surprisingly easy to get, about as hard as booze. And they deliver! I think the easy availability of both isn’t a coincidence. The narcotic cosh is after all the way prisoners are kept under sedation and under control.
Soma.
Tee Hee, I have also just been reading Brave New World (last time was 50 years ago and I didn’t realise it was a grand plan!).
Yes, but don’t lose sight of the fact that if it saves just one life all lockdowns, restrictions and the associated collateral damages are worth it. 🙁
Yes, but, dammit, that life was Bozo’s!
A bit rich to complain of one drug when you’re pushing mass-consumption of another.
Bang on
You got there before me!
The big difference being that alcohol works 😉
the cause of, and solution to, all life’s problems…
Yes – I’ll second that (in the right dosage 🙂 ).
… and it actually does what it says on the tin…. and the associated harms aren’t concealed, or the benefits overstated.
Nor does public money go to running an advertising campaign.
So it’s real informed choice.
I wonder if most people “drink to forget” or drink “because it doesn’t matter and our future is f*d anyway”, or perhaps a bit of both?
I’m also brewing my own beer now and this has led to more drinking, but I’m glad I’m nowhere near 50 units (yet).
PS: Love this website, so please keep up the good work.
I would imagine it could be a lot more than that. People don’t tend to tell people when they become alcoholics.
They tell us 1 in 5 relationships finished during lockdown. The drink burst my bubble. Be very careful not to use the internet after a few.
I find it better now we are able to socialise again. Socialising is only a day or two a week, but it has a knock on effect on habits for the rest of the week.
Perhaps not every night, but three pints in an evening makes you an alcoholic!? That’s me in trouble then. Just drinking my second glass of Belgian Beer now!! I adhere to the maxim….
In wine there is wisdom
In beer there is freedom
In water there is bacteria.
Cheers!
According to mentally more imbalanced tee totallers, someone walking past a supermarket shelf stacked with beer bottles and wondering if he should buy some or still has enough at home is an alcohol addict.
Someone walking past the groceries and wondering whether he should buy a cauliflower must thus be a cauliflower addict!
It’s the brussels sprouts that do it for me: shame they are so seasonal!
Something to look forward to every year.
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This was supposed to be a statement in favour of brussels sprouts.
I’m not replying to you, but to Ebygum. I hope the day never comes where I say No to the brussels sprout, especially if it has been roasted with bacon bits.
No! I like mine steamed and plain, and I always do put a cross on the stalk!
I boil mine briefly, and open the window after eating.
Good acess to freah veggies here, sprouts and purple sprouting broccoli in winter, followed by asparagus, then samphire. Currently I should have runner beans but they closed the road to the farm where I get them ,and for good measure they closed the back road too. Tomorrow I will try another farm. The ones in the shop are always overgrown and stringy.
Vegetables = a way to get more butter into your mouth.
I read about a journalist in, I think the Middle East-ish (Abyssinia?) Anyway, apparently all the other journalists got dysentery or some such but he escaped because he never drank water!
And alcoholism kills.
Fact.
Less disturing to family members than suicide.
In a way alcoholism at its worse can be akin to suicide, have seen this with my own eyes.
So does our PM and the Cabinet.
Only if you’re unvaccinated, of course
I seem to recall that the recommended amount used to be no more than 28, then 24, then 20 and now 14 units a week. All numbers plucked from thin air of course, though, having said that, 50 units a week does sound rather high!
Three pints a day is nothing. I’ll exceed that every day, have been doing this for over 15 years and I’m absolutely not a problem drinker in the conventional sense of the word. What these bozos don’t realize is that people don’t drink alcohol in order to intoxicate themselves, but all kinds of beverage which contain alcohol because they’re thirsty and/or like the taste.
Prior to the advent of canalisation and clean tap water, people would drink beer or wine all day, for the simple reason that this was a lot less unhealthy then drinking possibly contaminated water,
No doubt we’ll see that drink causes Covid, or vice versa. All from unimpeachable sources, naturally.
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Only a million thats generous