Drug addicts and alcoholics on benefits double in a decade / Telegraph, 4 April 2008
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/03/naddict103.xml
"In 2007 a total of 51,410 people picked up the benefit because they were classified as suffering from alcoholism - a rise from the 1997 figure of 26,800."