but it had been hoped the trend would reverse once lockdown restrictions were eased. but last year, deaths increased in england by another 4 per cent. kate lamble reports. this is me when i d come round in hospital in march 2021. i d had a seizure in asda supermarket. i d been there to buy some alcohol. many felt the isolation of pandemic lockdowns, but for some, the radical shift in day to day life allowed established habits to spiral. i d wake up in the morning, have a drink, i d drink steadily throughout the day, and it got to a point in my final months where i was taking alcohol to bed with me. around 2,000 more people in the uk died from alcohol specific causes in 2021 compared to 2019. the reason? well, the office for national statistics suggested that increased consumption during the pandemic might be to blame, but data from 2022, preliminary as it might be, seems to suggest that far from returning to pre pandemic
so even when responsibility started to come back into my life, i was still self medicating with alcohol. and by that point, it had become more of a survival. simon is now almost a year sober. during the pandemic, the organisation which supported him saw a 300% increase in referrals. are you able to provide support to everyone who wants it? no, we re not. nationally, across the country, 82% of adults that would benefit from alcohol treatment are not able to access it. and i think if we were comparing this to an issue like diabetes or cancer, that there would be a national outcry about that. we need to have more treatment capacity. we need a national alcohol strategy. the government says it s invested over £400 million to create more drug and alcohol treatment places. the pandemic then may have triggered changes to drinking habits, but the consequences could be with us for some time. kate lamble, bbc news.
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