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Alcohol burden on ambulance service in Scotland three times higher than previous
- rawgabbit 5y agoThe article says “deprived” areas were more likely to have alcohol related ambulance calls. Dickens wrote over a hundred years ago that alcoholism was the result of misery and wretchedness and not the other way around. > Gin-drinking is a great vice in England, but wretchedness and dirt are a greater; and until you improve the homes of the poor, or persuade a half-famished wretch not to seek relief in the temporary oblivion of his own misery, with the pittance which, divided among his family, would furnish a morsel of bread for each, gin-shops will increase in number and splendour. https://www.charlesdickenspage.com/gin-shops.html https://www.charlesdickenspage.com/gin-shops.html