UK drinking culture strains health system

By MEERA SELVA
The Associated Press
Saturday, January 2, 2010

...The cash-strapped National Health Service - the U.K.'s taxpayer-funded medical system - now spends 2.7 billion pounds ($4.4 billion) a year treating patients for drink-related problems, double the amount five years ago, the report said. Total funding for the health care system is currently around 100 billion pounds ($162 billion) a year. the rest