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Wed 05 May 2009Alcohol blamed for 6,500 dead in five years
THE IMPACT of alcohol consumption on deaths and hospitalisations in Ireland is much greater than previously realised, new research has found.
The research, presented in Dublin yesterday, found alcohol was responsible for 6,584 deaths from 2000 to 2004.
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