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Carisa Lee

Al­co­hol con­sump­tion among the pop­u­la­tion of T&T has been in­creas­ing for the past 13 years, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est STEPS Sur­vey of Non-Com­mu­ni­ca­ble Dis­eases (NCDs) con­duct­ed by the Min­istry of Health in 2024.

Dur­ing a sym­po­sium at the min­istry on Wednes­day, sta­tis­tics re­vealed that 51.5 per cent of the pop­u­la­tion had con­sumed al­co­hol in the last 30 days. The 2011 find­ings, mean­while, showed 40.6 per cent con­sump­tion.