The Mail (UK) - Number of off-licences in an area linked to
teen drinking hospital admissions, research reveals
A clear link
between the number of off-licences in an area and teenagers ending up in
hospital through drink has been established by researchers.
Financial Times
(Scotland) - Scotland in push for
minimum alcohol price
Scotland’s
determination to introduce a minimum selling price for alcohol has set it on
collision course with shopkeepers, distillers and brewers, as well as the
European courts and Westminster, which could find itself obliged to defend a
policy dismissed by the UK.
Times of India - Alcohol dulls brain into making mistakes
A new study says
that alcohol dulls the brain signal warning people about mistakes, reducing
their self control.
Sydney Morning
Herald (Australia) - Wine tax reform
plan to hit purse but help the body
TAXING wine in
the same way as beer would cut overall alcohol consumption by 9 per cent,
according to economic modelling to be presented today.
Nursing in
Practice - Mental health link to alcohol
problems
People diagnosed
with mental health problems like depression, bipolar disorder and anxiety
disorder are at much higher risk of developing a dependence on alcohol,
according to an Australian study.
BBC News (Scotland)
- Task force sets plan to blitz
Glasgow's booze culture
Plain clothes
police officers are to be deployed on Glasgow's transport network to cut
alcohol-related disorder.
Independent
Online (South Africa) - Alcohol adverts
face being canned
Severe
restrictions on alcohol advertising will be tabled before the cabinet within
two months, Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini confirmed on Tuesday.
Nursing in
Practice (UK) - New commissioning guide
for alcohol services
The National
Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has today published a guide
to help improve the identification and treatment of hazardous drinking, harmful
drinking and alcohol dependence in children, young people and adults. The guide
can help the NHS and local authorities to make best use of resources.
TNT Magazine - Children from divorced parents 'more
likely' to become binge drinkers
A "tough love" style of parenting,
which combines discipline and warmth, has been found the most effective in
ensuring children don't develop an unhealthy relationship with alcohol.
FoodAndDrinkEurope.com
- Drinks industry needs to tighten up on
social media marketing, report
Stricter controls
are needed for alcohol advertising on social media platforms in order to
restrict children’s access to marketing intended for adults, according to UK
charity agency Alcohol Concern.
Indian Country
Today Media Network.com (USA) - Fetal
Alcohol Syndrome Rate Higher Among American Indians
A mother rouses
from sleep, cradles her newborn infant and yawns. She then gets up and carries
the baby, all soft and not quite ready to wail for food, into the kitchen. She
reaches for a bottle, but it isn’t a baby bottle. It’s glass. It has a
screw-top. It’s 80 proof. The mother opens the bottle, smells it and takes a
drink.
East Coast Radio
(South Africa) - Alcohol abuse costs SA
billions
To try and get
locals to cut back on their drinking, South Africa's Trade and Industry
Department has launched Sobriety Week in Pretoria today.
Ninemsn
(Australia) - Older people 'most likely
to drink daily'
Older Australians
are the hidden statistics of those at risk of alcohol and drug addiction, a
health group says.
Telegraph.co.uk -
Drink-driving risk for obesity surgery
patients
Obese people who
undergo weight-loss surgery become drunk more easily and may inadvertently find
themselves over the limit, an academic has warned.
Tasmania Mercury
(Tasmania) - Study targets teen drinkers
THE attitude of
Tasmanian parents towards supplying their children with alcohol will be the
focus of a new five-year study looking at links between early drinking and
alcohol problems.
Irish Times
(Ireland) - Born with a craving for
alcohol
WOMEN IN Ireland
who drink while pregnant are creating children three times more likely to crave
alcohol, according to a leading specialist in the field.
New Zealand
Herald (New Zealand) - Public split on
cheap alcohol stuns expert
The public are
almost evenly split on whether supermarkets should be able to offer wine at
rock-bottom prices by selling at below cost, the latest Herald DigiPoll survey
shows.
Ormskirk &
Skelmersdale Advertiser (UK) - Ormskirk
and Skelmersdale children alcohol abuse levels shock – report
SHOCKING rates of
alcohol abuse by children in Ormskirk and Skelmersdale have been revealed by
new research.
Belarus Digest
(Belarus) - Cheap Booze for the People
of Belarus
As the economic
crisis deepens prices on nearly all products rise sharply in Belarus with one
remarkable exception - alcohol. These
days a bottle of vodka in Belarusian restaurants often costs less than a packet
of orange juice - US$3.
Austrian
Independent (Austria) - Alcohol
addiction warning issued
Around 900,000 of
the 8.5 million residents of Austrian are consuming health-threatening amounts
of alcohol, experts have warned.
Bloomberg
(Hungary) - Hungary to Raise Taxes,
Delay Spending for Budget, Orban Says
The tax increases
will affect alcohol, tobacco and gambling, Orban said in a TV2 interview today.
The measures will be approved Sept. 5 or 6 and will be announced Sept. 7, he
said.
New York Times
(Russia) - In Russia, Harsh Remedy for
Addiction Gains Favor
The treatment
center does not handcuff addicts to their beds anymore. But caged together on
double-decker bunks with no way out, they have no choice but to endure the
agonies of withdrawal, the first step in a harsh, coercive approach to drug
treatment that has gained wide support in Russia.
thenews.pl
(Poland) - Bar opens on Polish trains
A communist-era
law that prohibits the sale of alcohol on trains will no longer be in effect as
of 1 September.
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