BBC News (UK) - Alcohol tax urged to
fund abstinence-based rehab
Drink and drug
addicts should be treated in abstinence-based treatment centres paid
for with a new tax on alcohol, a think tank has urged.
Otago Daily Times
(New Zealand) - Dunedin's local alcohol policy
The Dunedin City
Council is working on one of its most contentious, and arguably most
important, policies in recent years.
New Zealand Doctor
Online (New Zealand) - Evidence of the dubious tactics of the
alcohol industry
Nicky Hager’s
latest book “Dirty Politics” reports the alcohol industry works
behind the scenes to actively try and smear the professional
reputation of people who promote effective alcohol reforms in New
Zealand, as well as other public health campaigns.
Times LIVE - Drunk
dials no mistake, alcohol is just a truth serum: study
A study has
revealed that those drunken calls you made last night when you were
drunk weren’t actually a mistake… you just didn’t care.
Telegraph.co.uk
(UK) - Royal Navy alcohol consumption 'curbed' after fatal
submarine shooting
The Navy is taking
steps to tackle binge drinking after the shooting of a commander on a
nuclear powered submarine by a drunken colleague, the government has
said.
ABC Online
(Australia) - Alcohol-free parties to challenge Sydney's youth
drinking culture
A "dangerous"
youth culture of going out to "drink till we're on the floor"
will be challenged by alcohol-free events in Sydney nightclubs, an
anti-violence campaigner says.
NEWS.com.au
(Australia) - If alcohol bottles were labelled truthfully
ADVERTISEMENTS for
alcohol always manage to focus on the glamour and glitz that comes
with drinking whatever light beer or “top shelf” vodka is being
peddled.
Medical Daily -
Strict State Alcohol Laws Benefit Binge Drinkers Wanting To Slow
Down
Each year, 80,000
deaths in the United States are attributable to alcohol and more than
half of these fatalities are due to binge drinking — defined as
downing four or more cocktails for women and five or more for men
during a single drinking occasion.
The Conversation
AU - Time to warn drinkers about the risk of cancer
Australians have
become accustomed to labels on cigarettes warning about the risk of
smoking causing cancer and other diseases. And our research,
published in the latest edition of BMC Public Health, shows similar
labels could help consumers better understand the harms of drinking
alcohol.
Helsinki Times
(Finland) - Finns Party calls for an overhaul of Finnish alcohol
policy
Alcohol tax rates
must be lowered, the sales of wine in grocery shops permitted and the
monopoly of Alko gradually dissolved, the Finns Party demands in its
most recent communiqué.
Asian Scientist
Magazine (India) - Threefold Surge In Drinking Among Indian Teens
The proportion of
men who start to drink alcohol in their teens has surged more than
threefold over the past few decades in India, suggests research
published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community
Health.
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