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...scale of Scotland's alcohol-misuse problem is shocking," said Nicola Sturgeon, Health Secretary to Scotland's devolved government. And shockingly expensive, costing Scotland $3.2 billion a year in lost productivity and additional expenditure for health services, the police and other public-sector institutions. Scots are the world's eighth-heaviest drinkers, and a casual visitor to Glasgow could easily conclude that they top the league in public Bacchanalian drunkenness. (See pictures of whisky-making in Scotland...
...cost of Scotland's alcohol problem is not only directed at the public purse - the Scots have the highest rate for cirrhosis of the liver in Europe and one of the worst alcohol-related death rates. Rising murder and crime figures are also linked to drink. A study conducted for the Scottish Prison Service between 1979 and 2007 and published this year discovered that alcohol use had soared, with 79.6% of the young inmates surveyed in the final year claiming alcohol as a contributing factor in their offenses, compared with 47.9% in 1979. Respondents reporting that they had been drunk...
...they'd been drinking before committing the crime that put them behind bars, 43.4% answered Buckfast. Indeed, the beverage is so frequently associated with disorder that there have been calls to ban it. But opponents of such an idea say the only effective way to tackle Scotland's alcohol problem is to target its underlying causes...