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by Change | 2 Jul 2010

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The number of people in England requiring alcohol addiction treatment has risen, it has been found.

There has been a sharp increase in the number of people in England requiring drug addiction support, a new study has found.

According to Alcohol Concern, there are now 1.6 million individuals who are dependent on alcohol, meaning there has been a rise of more than a quarter in the number of people with serious drink problems.

Writing for the Daily Telegraph, Andrew M Brown, an addiction and substance abuse expert, responded to the findings by suggesting that alcohol addiction treatment is the "poor relation" to the treatment available for illegal drug users.

"The numbers of dependent drinkers are four times higher than that of dependent drug users," he explained in the newspaper.

"But despite this, dependent drinkers are 'ten times less likely', as the charity puts it, to receive treatment than drug users."

Mr Brown went on to say that addiction to more harmful drugs, such as heroin and crack cocaine, may receive more attention because the substances are related to serious crime.

According to the NHS, approximately one in 13 people in the UK are alcohol dependent.

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