{"id":89486,"date":"2026-05-20T15:53:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89486"},"modified":"2026-05-20T15:53:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:53:28","slug":"uk-alcohol-deaths-fall-for-first-time-since-covid-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/20\/uk-alcohol-deaths-fall-for-first-time-since-covid-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"UK alcohol deaths fall for first time since Covid pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1920\/cpsprodpb\/a815\/live\/7b753f80-4d50-11f1-9077-cb5f00d3274a.jpg\" alt=\"A woman reaches for a bottle of white wine off a supermarket shelf\" width=\"551\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The number of deaths caused by alcohol in the UK has fallen for the first time since the Covid pandemic, the latest national figures show. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c3v2dxg79w2o\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The number of deaths caused by alcohol in the UK has fallen for the first time since the Covid pandemic, the latest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/late-diner.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89487,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89486\/revisions\/89487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}