CBC (Canada) - Vancouver raises the bar for alcohol-free drinks
The recently launched Mocktails store and The Drive Canteen, a sober snack bar, are among the Vancouver businesses responding to a growing demand for non-alcoholic beverages.
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Boston University - Reducing Late-Night
Alcohol Sales Curbed Violent Crimes by 23% Per Year in a Baltimore Neighborhood
A new study found that reducing alcohol hours of sale for bars and taverns
in a Baltimore, Md. neighborhood also reduced homicides by 51 percent within
the first month and by 40 percent annually, pointing to possible opportunities
for other cities to address excessive drinking and crime.
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LSM (Latvia) - 100 years of Latvians and
alcohol: Part One
Alcohol consumption in Latvia is periodically brought to the attention of
our society. There is good reason - statistics show that we are among the
leaders in consumption in Europe.
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Sky News (UK) - Nearly a quarter of
teachers use alcohol to cope with stresses of the job, survey suggests
A teaching union calls for suicide prevention training for all school
leaders as teachers reveal what they are doing to get through the day.
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HuffPost - If You Have More Than 1
Alcoholic Drink In A Day, We've Got Some Bad News
It’s well established that alcohol is not good for you — it can harm your
liver and increase your risk of developing certain cancers. However, its impact
on heart health is more debated. Some experts have long said that a glass of
red wine can be good for your heart, but this isn’t necessarily true, according
to the American Heart Association. What’s more, excessive drinking can lead to
high blood pressure and an irregular heartbeat.
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Medical Xpress - Even moderate alcohol
usage during pregnancy linked to birth abnormalities, researchers find
University of New Mexico researchers have found that even low to moderate
alcohol use by pregnant patients may contribute to subtle changes in their
babies' prenatal development, including lower birth length and a shorter
duration of gestation.
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Medical Xpress - Double trouble: The risks
of mixing alcohol and sports wagering
It turns out that money isn't the only thing sports gamblers are risking.
According to a new study, bettors who wager on sporting events, esports, and
daily fantasy sports are much more likely than other individuals to binge
drink.
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Eurocare - Shaping the Future of EU Health
Policy: What Role for Non-communicable Disease Prevention?
As part of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, a
High-level Conference on the Future EU Health Union was organised on the 26th
and 27th of March by Belgium’s Federal Public Service Public Health, Food Chain
Safety and Environment. Key themes for discussion included health workforce
shortages, medicine supply vulnerabilities, non-communicable disease (NCD)
prevention, crisis preparedness, and access to EU funding for health
investments.
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IAS - The Sick-Quitter Effect:
Alcohol-related death has been underestimated over the last 30 years
The relationship between alcohol use and risk of death has been studied
widely, and often a J-shaped risk curve is found, where low-level drinkers
appear to have decreased risk compared to non-drinkers, and heavy drinkers the
highest risk.
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AlcoholAndCancer (France) - While nearly
half of cancers could be prevented each year, 28.8% of the French population
still believes that "nothing can be done to avoid cancer."
Reducing one's cancer risk through daily actions and habits is within
everyone's reach. According to the latest Cancer Barometer, 28.8% of the
surveyed population think that "nothing can be done to avoid the
disease." Yet, of the 433,000 cancers detected each year, nearly half are
linked to avoidable risk factors: consumption of tobacco and alcohol,
unbalanced diet, physical inactivity, etc.
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NordAN (Denmark) - The Danish government's
prevention initiative lacks effective measures to address harmful drinking
culture among youth
Although the government intends to reduce young people's risky alcohol
consumption with a prevention initiative, we are concerned that it won't change
the alcohol culture and consumption among youth, warns Ida Fabricius Bruun,
Director of Alcohol & Society.
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popNAD - Why doesn’t the person next to me
know that alcohol causes cancer?
While alcohol is common all over the world, most people are unaware of the
more profound health risks it can pose - beyond the immediate effects of
intoxication and hangovers. Since 1987, the International Agency for Research
on Cancer (IARC) has placed alcohol in the Group 1 category of carcinogens,
aligning it with widely recognized hazards such as tobacco and asbestos.
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The BMJ (UK) - Commercially driven efforts
to frame alcohol harms have no place in UK health policy development
Including the alcohol industry and allied organisations in decision making
around alcohol regulation and policy can promote industry commercial interests
over the health of the public
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