英伦广角 2010-02-13 饮酒须慎

As a nation with drinking ourselves to an early grave, alcohol is one of the prime causes of liver disease, now the fifth most common cause of death in England. And today, the Department of Health will appoint clinical director to tackle the problem.

 

"How long do you actually want me to spend on?"

 

Jeanette Shiret hit the bottle after losing her job. She drank a liter and half of vodka everyday. Even though she's now teetotal. Her liver is so badly damaged that she die if she turn to booze again. She volunteers with an alcohol action team to encourage more people to get help.

 

"The pressures, yeah, everyday stress and strain of life. You end up to the life of drinking as a way to hide, hide from problems hide from ？.  And the unemployment ？ is well at the moment. That's going to make people for a feel even worse."

 

According to the British Liver Trust, the UK is the only developed country where liver disease is on the rise. In 2008, just over 16,000 people died from the disease. Deaths have increased by 12% in the last three years, but 95% of cases are preventable. This doctor who treated George best says urgent action is needed.

 

"Fear is advertising¹ for affordability² and access and just mush rooms because more people drink and more people around them will drink so it goes on. And you have to tackle the？ areas, if you going to reduce alcohol consumption in this country."

 

Alcohol accounts for half of all cases of liver disease. Fatty diet and hepatitis viruses largely caused through drug use and unprotected sex, are also major causes.

 

"Early diagnosis³ is going to be the big challenge, I think, because liver disease is very difficult to diagnose at its early stages. The symptom's roughly very vague. And many patients aren't coming forward until they actually have very serious advanced disease which is difficult for doctors to treat and also very expensive for the NHS."

 

The Department of Health is recently published a strategy to improve drug and alcohol treatment services and raise public awareness⁴ of lifestyle risks. It will be up to the new liver tsar to make it work and save lives.

 

Thomas Moore, Sky News.
 

1 advertising   

n.广告业；广告活动 a.广告的；广告业务的

参考例句：

• Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
• The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。

2 affordability   

可购性

参考例句：

• Performance-Based Logistics Affordability: Can We Afford Categorical Conversion to Performance-Based Acquisition? 基于性能的后期的可承受性：能否担负得起向基于性能的采办的无条件的转变？
• There would be no crisis of affordability, as't for food or clothing. 就想食物与服装一样，因为供给没有危机。

3 diagnosis   

n.诊断，诊断结果，调查分析，判断

参考例句：

• His symptoms gave no obvious pointer to a possible diagnosis.他的症状无法作出明确的诊断。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做一次彻底的调查分析。

4 awareness   

n.意识，觉悟，懂事，明智

参考例句：

• There is a general awareness that smoking is harmful.人们普遍认识到吸烟有害健康。
• Environmental awareness has increased over the years.这些年来人们的环境意识增强了。