More than one-third of people who died of alcohol-related liver disease were below 34 years of age, new figures reveal.
Statistics published by the Health Research Board showed that between 2004 and 2008 there were 672 alcohol-related poisoning deaths recorded and of those two thirds were men and the majority were aged less than 50 years. Half of the deaths were in the 40 to 54 year age group.
The report, the first of its kind in Ireland, found that alcohol was the drug more frequently implicated in poisoning deaths in Ireland, with future research to equate the "social cost" of these fatalities on families and society.
The number of non-poisoning deaths in people who were alcohol dependent also increased, from 508 in 2004 to 799 in 2008.
Source: Noel Baker, Irish Examiner, 13/07/2011
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