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1 in 4 'hazardous drinkers'

Almost a quarter of Britons are "hazardous drinkers" and hundreds of thousands more people are being admitted to hospital for alcohol-related reasons than five years ago, according to official figures.

The statistics for 2007 showed that 33 percent of men and 16 percent of women drank potentially dangerous amounts, the NHS Information Center said.