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Alcohol could more than 200,000 avoidable deaths in the next 20 years, according to new research.
Experts including Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, former president of the Royal College of Physicians. predicts that current trends could lead to 210,000 deaths which could be prevented.
According to the experts in the The Lancet journal online, about 70,000 of these could be from liver disease, while others are forecasted to be from accidents, violence and chronic illnesses liked to drink.
The prediction is an improvement on the 250,000 avoidable deaths envisaged last year.
This warning comes after Prime Minister David Cameron pledged last week to crack down on excessive drinking.
He promised to look at the issue of alcohol pricing and how hospitals were treating the effects of binge drinking.
Signs are suggesting that alcohol-related liver deaths, which represent about a quarter of all deaths from alcohol, are increasing following a dip, the experts say.
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