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Alcohol-related death in Reading

May 23 2009
A homeless man found by market traders died from acute alcohol toxicity A homeless man found dead at Reading market on September 26th has been named as Stephen Walsh. The 39-year-old rough sleeper died from acute alcohol toxicity. He was found by market traders setting up for business in the early hours of the morning, a spokesman for Reading police said. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), alcohol-related fatalities among all adult age groups in Britain more than doubled over the past 15 years to 8,758 in 2006. The steepest increase was among men aged 35-54, who are falling victims to cirrhosis of the liver and other alcohol-induced diseases at a younger age than before. A recent study by the Broadway Healthy Living Centre for homeless people, opened in London in 2001, found that 84 per cent of the users seen by its nurse had a recorded alcohol support need.
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