BBC News (Scotland) -
'More research needed' on underage drinkers and minimum pricing
NHS
experts have said more research is needed into how minimum pricing
for alcohol is affecting underage drinking.
BBC
News (UK) - Call to tax 'hidden' sugar in pre-mixed alcoholic
drinks
Many
"ready to drink" pre-mixed spirits are packed with
excessive sugar and hidden calories and should be subject to a sugar
tax like fizzy drinks, health experts say.
YLE
News (Finland) - Can "Dry January" help quench Finland's
thirst for alcohol?
Many
people in Finland are wrapping up a month of abstinence from alcohol,
known as “tipaton tammikuu” or Dry January in English. Annika
Eloranta of the Network for Preventive Substance Abuse Work (EPT)
told All Points North that Finns drink 10.4 litres of hard liquor per
person each year, a number that was declining but has bubbled up
slightly in recent years.
94.5
PST (USA) - 1 in 3 New Jerseyans Lie About Their Alcohol
Consumption
Let's
be real, some of the questions that get asked at the doctor’s
offices are on another level. Sometimes filling out the forms at the
doctor's office can make you feel like a complete alcoholic but
really you are just living your best life.
Sudbury.com
(Canada) - Alcohol involved in almost half of snowmobile
fatalities over the past decade
The
Ontario Provincial Police has released a report in conjunction with
Snowmobile Safety Week, indicating that over the past 10 snowmobile
seasons they have investigated 175 snowmobile fatalities.
BBC
News (Spain) - Spain's Magaluf and Ibiza crack down on
alcohol-fuelled holidays
Spain's
Balearic Islands have passed a law banning pub crawls and happy hours
in three popular tourist destinations in a bid to crack down on
alcohol-fuelled holidays.
RACGP
(Australia) - Alcohol use stable, decline in smoking rates: AIHW
According
to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) findings,
the apparent consumption of alcohol in 2017–18 is equivalent to an
average of 2.72 standard drinks per day per consumer of alcohol aged
15 and over – an increase of just 0.02 since 2016–17.
EurekAlert
- Combined prenatal smoking and drinking greatly increases SIDS
risk
Children
born to mothers who both drank and smoked beyond the first trimester
of pregnancy have a 12-fold increased risk for Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome (SIDS) compared to those unexposed or only exposed in the
first trimester of pregnancy, according to a new study supported by
the National Institutes of Health.
Psychiatry
Advisor - Alcohol Consumption Worsens Global Burden of Disease
Study
results published in Lancet Public Health underscores the significant
worldwide burden of disease attributable to alcohol.
Alcohol-attributable death rates were highest in Eastern Europe,
sub-Saharan Africa, and countries with low human development indices
(HDIs). Across countries, alcohol use disproportionately affected
young people and men.
Technology
Networks - How Alcohol Addiction – and Abstinence – Remodel
the Brain
Employing
advanced technologies that allow whole brain imaging at single-cell
resolution, researchers at University of California San Diego School
of Medicine report that in an alcohol-dependent mouse model, the
rodent brain's functional architecture is substantially remodeled.
IAS
(UK) - Young risky drinkers: overrepresented as victims and
perpetrators of alcohol's harms to others
Adverse
outcomes from drinking are borne not only by individual drinkers, but
by their families, friends, and the broader community. Alcohol
related harms are pervasive – they include everyday problems such
having to clean up vomit on the streets, or having to pick up the
slack of a work colleague who is hung over.
Baltic
Times (Latvia) - Finance Ministry proposes to raise excise tax on
alcohol gradually
The
Finance Ministry proposes to raise the excise tax rate on alcohol
gradually, said Finance Minister Janis Reirs' aide Ints Dalderis (New
Unity) in an interview with the Latvian public radio today.
Independent
(UK) - Almost three quarters of drinkers unaware of links between
alcohol and cancer, poll claims
Almost
three quarters of drinkers don’t know that any amount of alcohol
can increase the risk of developing cancer, according to research.
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