Mods – this is relevant to Ireland because MUP was introduced here as a public health measure and was based on the Scottish model and an apparent reduction in alcohol related harm in Scotland.
This latest data would seem to show that was not accurate.
If alcohol becomes unaffordable but people still want to drink, what’s the stop a black market of dodgy, home-made vodka appearing to fill the need. Just without the quality checks needed to stop batches killing people or making them blind.
The minimum pricing on alcohol had so much sense right?
The government was told that this would happen with MUP.
It was always known that more money would go to drink over other essentials, and it wouldn’t help the problem because making addicts pay more for their drug of choice, and not offering any alternative such as counseling or rehab programs, is just going to cause them to spend more money on it.
Soft
arbitrarily paying 6.60 for a pint is just so shit.
Yeah, but cannabis is worse!!
I literally seen my neighbour turns into Green party voter after smoking spliff!
Definitely covid, I barely drank in the house before covid. It’s not that way now. It creeps in and becomes normalised. The volumes gone up for people.
**In Scotland**.
We can see from the comments that it is relevant info for Ireland as well, but it wouldn’t hurt to include that in the title as this way people who scroll through Reddit would think that these are Irish stats.
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Mods – this is relevant to Ireland because MUP was introduced here as a public health measure and was based on the Scottish model and an apparent reduction in alcohol related harm in Scotland.
This latest data would seem to show that was not accurate.
If alcohol becomes unaffordable but people still want to drink, what’s the stop a black market of dodgy, home-made vodka appearing to fill the need. Just without the quality checks needed to stop batches killing people or making them blind.
The minimum pricing on alcohol had so much sense right?
The government was told that this would happen with MUP.
It was always known that more money would go to drink over other essentials, and it wouldn’t help the problem because making addicts pay more for their drug of choice, and not offering any alternative such as counseling or rehab programs, is just going to cause them to spend more money on it.
Soft
arbitrarily paying 6.60 for a pint is just so shit.
Yeah, but cannabis is worse!!
I literally seen my neighbour turns into Green party voter after smoking spliff!
Definitely covid, I barely drank in the house before covid. It’s not that way now. It creeps in and becomes normalised. The volumes gone up for people.
**In Scotland**.
We can see from the comments that it is relevant info for Ireland as well, but it wouldn’t hurt to include that in the title as this way people who scroll through Reddit would think that these are Irish stats.