New official statistics show that alcohol-related deaths in Scotland are still almost double what they were in the early 1990s.
The number of alcohol-related deaths was relatively stable in the 1980s at about 600 per year but rose to a high of 1,546 in 2006. In 2014 there were 1,152 alcohol-related deaths. The Scottish Government said that Scots continued to drink almost a fifth more than people in England and Wales and that they were committed to tackling the alcohol problem, in particular championing the introduction of Minimum Unit Pricing.
Published Friday 16 October 2015
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