News of Iceland (Iceland) - The
financial crash reduced smoking and alcohol consumption
The study aims to
find out whether and how the economic crash influenced alcohol and
tobacco consumption, specifically considering changes in the labour
market, i.e. the reduction in the number of work hours and lowering
of real income.
The Local (Norway)
- Progress Party pledges to legalize moonshine
Norway's Progress
Party has said it would end bans to poker, professional boxing, and
home-distilled moonshine in a nakedly populist plan to remove 30
different prohibitions.
BMC Public Health
(Sweden) - Prevalence of alcohol use before and during pregnancy
and predictors of drinking during pregnancy: a cross sectional study
in Sweden
The prevalence of
drinking during pregnancy is relatively low in Sweden. However, 84%
of the women report drinking in the year preceding pregnancy and most
of these women continue to drink until pregnancy recognition, which
means that they might have consumed alcohol in early pregnancy.
Radio Sweden
(Sweden) - Alcohol tax to rise 13 per cent?
The Swedish
government may increase tax on alcohol by 13 per cent, financial
paper Dagens Industri reports, citing TV4.
Health Aim -
Study: Drinking Prior to First Pregnancy Could Increase Breast
Cancer Risk
Drinking just one
drink with alcohol a day during the years prior to a woman’s first
pregnancy could increase the risk of her developing breast cancer at
a later stage in life, indicated a large study that was just
published.
RT (UK) -
'Addicted man of Europe': Study says drug, alcohol addiction a
crisis in UK
The UK is the
addiction capital of Europe, with some of the highest rates of opiate
and alcohol dependency as well as a worldwide hub for so-called
‘legal highs’.
PsychCentral.com -
Alcohol Disrupts Brain Links That Help Read Social Cues
Alcohol
intoxication reduces the communication between the two areas of the
brain that work together to properly interpret and respond to social
signals, according to a new study.
HealthDay -
Alcohol Dominates in Pop Music Lyrics: Study
Today's popular
music often celebrates excessive drinking as a fun, beneficial
pastime, even highlighting select booze brands in many lyrics, a new
study finds.
Catholic Herald
Online - Pope to young people: Avoid drug and alcohol culture
Fight off a drug-
and alcohol-pushing culture and other hazardous trends sweeping
across today’s world, Pope Francis has told young people.
AllAfrica.com
(South Africa) - South Africa: Proposed Alcohol Advertising Ban
May Be Just the Start
Alcohol abuse is
the third biggest cause of premature death in South Africa, and
researchers argue a total ban on alcohol advertising should be just
the start.
Monthly
Prescribing Reference - Alcohol Consumption Tied to Endometriosis
Risk
Alcohol
consumption seems to be associated with increased endometriosis risk,
according to a meta-analysis published in the August issue of the
American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
Express.co.uk (UK)
- Society is being destroyed by UK's drink and drug addictions,
warns think-tank
Think-tank The
Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) says addicts are buying class A drugs
such as heroin and crack cocaine from mail order websites, and the UK
has become a hub for websites peddling "legal highs" or
"club drugs" such as Salvia or Green Rolex.
Times of Malta
(Malta) - Should minimum drinking age be raised?
The adverse social
and health consequences of excessive drinking are well known. The
battle to tackle anti-social drinking in modern, more affluent
societies like ours has to start early if it is to be successful.
The Press (New
Zealand) - Alcohol-related harm the focus for policy
A new one-way door
policy stopping people from entering bars after 1am could become
compulsory from December, says Marlborough alcohol advisory committee
member John Leggett.
Herald Scotland
(Scotland) - Alcohol-related fatalities fall 13%
THE number of
people in Scotland dying from alcohol-related diseases has fallen to
its lowest level since the 1990s.
About - News &
Issues (USA) - Colleges Failing at Curbing Binge Drinking
If you are sending
children off to college this year you may not find much comfort in
the fact that most colleges are failing miserably in trying to
curtail dangerous binge drinking on campus and in their communities.
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