Binge Drinking and Chronic Liver Disease Both Growing in Scotland

The Scots love their drink and a growing habit seems to be coinciding with an increase in the diagnosis of chronic liver disease. According to a report in Top Us News, binge drinking is on the rise in Scotland, as is chronic liver disease. Now that the numbers of this disease due to drinking has tripled in the past 15 years, Scotland has the second highest rate in Europe. The NHS reports that roughly 9,072 people...