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Re:Dublin Whiskey Fire by olddustytrail on Friday August 19, 2022 @04:31AM (#32518684)
No, a grand total of 13 people out of an entire city population overdosed to death when given access to unlimited alcohol.

I doubt any other city would do better. London sure as hell wouldn't.

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Re:Dublin Whiskey Fire by lostlogin on Friday August 19, 2022 @05:11AM (#32518909)
I wonder how many alcohol related deaths per day a city the size of London has on a typical day.
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Re:Dublin Whiskey Fire by jhugo on Friday August 19, 2022 @10:50AM (#32521715)
In the entire UK, 8,974 deaths attributed directly to alcohol in the whole year of 2020 (18.6% higher than in 2019). Most are not acute "drinking yourself to death" but rather alcohol-related liver disease. Scotland and Northern Ireland fare worse than the other countries.

For London specifically, in 2020 it was ~800 deaths, or about 2.2 per day on average.

Source: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...

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