The number of over-50s admitted to hospital for brain damage caused by the amount of alcohol they drink has more than trebled in little over a decade. There were 3,627 admissions of over-50s with alcohol-related brain damage in 2015, compared with 994 in 2002, but experts said that the condition could be twice as prevalent because it was poorly diagnosed. Read my article in the Times newspaper.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/huge-rise-in-middle-aged-drinkers-with-brain-damage-n5zgcwzf5

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