Alcohol deaths from pandemic drinking are predicted to rise
Heavy home drinking during the pandemic may have set habits that will lead to rises in alcohol-related deaths and illness in England, forecasters warn. The work, commissioned for the NHS, suggests even under the best-case scenario of people cutting back to pre-pandemic boozing levels, there could be 1,830 extra deaths within two decades. At worst it could be 25,000, along with a million extra hospital admissions. Experts say the findings are a wake-up call. The warnings come
