article_snippet.sent: A mother has revealed her addiction to alcohol has cost NHS more than £100,000.
article_snippet.sent: Taxpayers pay up £3.5 billion a year to treat alcohol-related problems, and that figure is set to rise.
article_snippet.sent: Taxpayers pay up £3.5 billion a year to treat alcohol-related problems, and that figure is set to rise.
article_snippet.sent: Research published late last month revealed that binge drinking is costing Britain a staggering £4.9bn every year - or £550,000 an hour.
article_snippet.sent: The report came shortly after the head of the NHS warned binge drinking fuelled by cheap alcohol is having a 'huge impact' on health services.
article_snippet.sent: Chief executive Simon Stevens said the Government needed to deal with the 'overuse' of alcohol urgently as the Government is creating problems for over-stretched A&E units.
article_snippet.sent: economists from Bath University NHS show that more than one million patients are being admitted to hospital for alcohol-related illness and injuries every year – twice as many as a decade ago.