2007-01-11 06:09:23 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Dental
I'm not sure what the total figure is but I know that my own personal drain on public finances due to debauched alcoholic behavious was in excess of 65 000 pounds. But I paid 80 000 pounds in tax and national insurance contributions last year so my conscience is clear. I see it as more of a rebate.
2007-01-11 06:26:43 · answer #1 · answered by Peter H 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Graham H not just that my mother worked all her life and is 82 trying to get things for her is a nightmare you can not work at all and be on benefit or just land in this country and you get help I smoke so yes smokers are a drain as well the whole of the NHS needs looking at it is a mess it seems to me the less you have the more you are entitled to
2007-01-11 10:28:48 · answer #2 · answered by Bernie c 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you are not an alcoholic obviously so you don't quite understand the problem of what it is about, having been there and spending the rest of my life as one even thoe i don't drink you cant believe what it is like. but as to your question yes there is a drain on the NHS for it and yes it does cost considerably amounts of money to sort us people out but along side smokers and obese people it's not as much as you might think. if this country was in some way to sort out it's social indifference then perhaps and i say perhaps we might find an answer to some of these problems.
2007-01-11 07:34:19 · answer #3 · answered by tanzy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's impossible to know because it contributes to many accidents and illnesses by weakening the immune system, and some feel it causes, not just allows, cancer to develope. Like anything else, a little is ok, it's going to excess or at the wrong times that causes problems. And I didn't even mention teh birth defects it contributes to, but there is a reason why we have a pandemic of birth defects in recent decades, drugs and alcohol are why.
2007-01-11 06:30:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They cost them nothing. The NHS is the one SPENDING the money and making them go, right?
Besides, the difference between an alcoholic and a drunk is the alcoholic goes to meetings. I discussed this with my friends and they all said "I'll drink to that!"
2007-01-11 06:30:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
"Alcohol Dependence
Alcohol is most widely used of all psychoactive drugs
Can be purchased legally in most parts of United States
The Social Cost of Alcohol Problems
Impossible to calculate social cost of alcohol problems
Easier to calculate monetary cost of alcohol problems
Decreased work productivity cost $70 billion
Treatment and support services for alcoholics cost $20 billion"
2007-01-11 06:39:01 · answer #6 · answered by OneRunningMan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot less than the government make in tax on alcohol
2007-01-11 06:21:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
probably quite a bit..as do smokers - but the government do get loads of taxes from this..so maybe it balances out..and they dont always live to draw their old age pension..so the government wins again!!
its FAT people that are a burden on the nhs i think..obesity & type 11 diabetes all caused through bad food and greed...then when they are REALLY fat...they need help - thats disgusting...no excuse whatsoever to be fat!!
2007-01-11 06:27:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i dont cost no body nothing cause i stay at home and drink... but i cost my self plently of cash... 50 to 60 dollars a week.. i need a new hobby
2007-01-11 06:30:17 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
id say over a billion, but like smokers they raise billions of pounds through taxes.
the goverment wants people to drink, smoke, work, have babies and die when they reach over the age of 65.
2007-01-11 06:21:39 · answer #10 · answered by raggyann 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋