10-year-olds treated for alcohol problems - Carlisle News & Star 27th March 2008

Friday, March 28, 2008

CUMBRIAN children as young as 10 and 11 have been treated for alcohol problems and people in their 20s have developed liver disease, new figures show. John Ashton photo John Ashton The statistics, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, show for the first time the true extent of the county’s booze culture, with pregnant mums admitted for complications related to alcohol use, three young people killed by drink, and 740 people aged under 30 treated for alcohol-related illness and injury in two years.

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