Aid targeted for alcoholics
AN ORGANISATION has been launched to campaign for better NHS treatment of alcoholics.
UK Advocates has highlighted a number of areas where it feels hospitals and health boards could do better when treating those with an alcohol dependency.
The Evening News revealed last week that 100 people a month in the Lothians are treated for alcohol poisoning.
The organisation said there was hostility within the NHS towards abstinence-based treatment; that drugs were overused in treating some alcoholics; and not enough testing is done to establish the physical damage people with the addiction have caused themselves.
Founder Bob Beckett said: "Treating alcoholics with drugs and on a basis of modernisation is similar to advising someone with lung cancer to cut down smoking."
Email to a friend
Print this page- Family mourn death of Glasgow ‘fight’ schoolboy
- Rangers takeover: Duff & Phelps threaten legal action against BBC
- Today’s youth not fit to be employed, says car firm Arnold Clark
- Rangers administration: Fans fear Duff & Phelps claims could scare off Green
- Rangers takeover: triple penalty punishment enough, says Johnston
- Alistair Darling leads ‘No to independence’ fight over tea and biscuits
- Scottish independence: SNP flip-flops over Nato
- Scottish Independence: SNP ‘won’t be Yes campaign’s only voice’
- Scottish independence: Alex Salmond’s pledge to sign up 1m voters
- Today’s youth not fit to be employed, says car firm Arnold Clark
Looking for...
Featured advertisers
Jobs
Search for a job
Motors
Search for a car
Property
Search for a house
Weather for Edinburgh
Sunday 27 May 2012
Today
Sunny
Temperature: 9 C to 22 C
Wind Speed: 13 mph
Wind direction: North east
Tomorrow
Sunny
Temperature: 9 C to 21 C
Wind Speed: 15 mph
Wind direction: North east
