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First Covid lockdowns, then alcohol to your door: rise in young Victorians with liver diseases prompts fears

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While young people are drinking less across the board, one expert says a small minority are actually drinking huge and damaging amounts of alcohol

Rising numbers of young people are being hospitalised with severe, irreversible liver disease, as alcohol-related hospital admissions remain above pre-pandemic levels after peaking during Covid lockdowns.

A new Burnet Institute report, commissioned by the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (Fare), analysed nearly two decades of Victorian health data to examine the prevalence of alcohol-associated harm.

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