EPHA (EU) - 68 NGOs call of a new EU alcohol strategy
Under Eurocare’s
leadership, 68 international, European and National NGOs (including EPHA)
joined forces to call for a comprehensive Alcohol Policy Strategy in the
European Union 2013-2020.
BusinessWeek
(USA) - Black and Asian Teens Have
Lowest Rates of Drug and Alcohol Use
Black and Asian
teenagers in the U.S. are less likely to use alcohol or drugs than adolescents
of other races, a study found.
AHN | All
Headline News - Teenage girls up breast
cancer risk with every alcoholic drink
Among teen girls
with a family history of breast cancer, there is a significant association
between the amount of alcohol consumed and the risk of getting benign breast
disease, which is a known breast cancer risk factor.
BBC News (UK) - Alcohol policy a joke, says British Liver
Trust
Government-led
policies on alcohol throughout the UK have been branded a joke by the chief
executive of the charity the British Liver Trust.
MedPage Today - Alcohol-Inflamed Livers Benefit from Early
Transplant
Early liver
transplantation for severe alcoholic hepatitis boosts survival, whereas adding
an antioxidant to medical therapy may not, studies showed.
Times of India
(UK) - Alcohol, obesity main cause of
cancer
Alcohol and
obesity are to be blamed for the alarming rate of throat and liver cancer in
the UK as compared to anywhere else in Europe, a new study has claimed.
The Press
Association (Northern Ireland) - Action
urged over alcohol abuse
Alcohol abuse
claims 266 lives in Northern Ireland every year, doctors have warned. With the
estimated cost of alcohol misuse across society in the region standing at
almost £700 million, the British Medical Association NI (BMA) has called for
action on the problem.
MarketWatch (USA)
- Should Liquor Sales Be Privatized,
asks Pennsylvanians Concerned about Alcohol Problems
Recently Governor
Thomas Corbett announced that an independent study reported that if the state
were to sell off the state store system to private operators the state of
Pennsylvania would realize an estimated one and half billion dollars.
Daily Mail - Fatherhood maketh the man: Smoking, alcohol
even crime all drop in men who become dads
Becoming a father
really can help men ditch bad habits, a study has found. Men who become dads
for the first time tend to steer away tobacco, alcohol even crime, say
researchers from Oregon State University.
The Daily Iowan
(USA) - One year after 21-ordinance
vote, alcohol-related ER visits drop
Fewer University
of Iowa students are going to the emergency room because of alcohol,
newly-released data show. But some in the community disagree on whether the
statistics represent a change in dangerous drinking behavior.
Irish Times
(Ireland) - Surge in alcohol abuse
reported
The number of
people treated for alcohol abuse increased by almost 50 per cent in five years,
according to figures just published. The report, Treated Problem Alcohol use in
Ireland 2005 to 2010 , from the Health Research Board, says 42,333 cases
presented with alcohol as the main problem substance during the five year
period.
Stuff.co.nz (New
Zealand) - Alcohol and violence 'a
deadly mix'
It is only a
matter of time before someone dies of alcohol-related violent assault in
Nelson, a senior Emergency Department doctor at Nelson Hospital says.
Forbes (Russia) -
Russian Alcohol Consumption is Mildly
Decreasing
It’s not the most
in-depth analysis of Russian drinking patterns I’ve ever seen, but I did want
to briefly flag this post from the Financial Times’ always excellent Beyond
BRICS because it shows that Russian alcohol consumption is not some mythical
entity that is totally immune to amelioration or modification.
Waterloo Record -
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder requires
new approach
Often all people
see in a child with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder is their bad behaviour. “The
behaviours make it difficult to deal with the kid in many cases,” said Allan
Mountford, who teaches in a special program that helps troubled teenagers transition
to high school.
BBC News
(England/Wales) - Below-cost alcohol to
be banned from April
A ban on the sale
of alcohol below a minimum price will be introduced in England and Wales from 6
April 2012.
The Australian
(Australia) - Women still drink and
smoke while pregnant
ONE in five
pregnant women smoke and 38 per cent drink alcohol, a study has found. It is to
be released today. Carried out by the Australian Institute of Family Studies,
it uses data from Growing Up in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian
Children, which has tracked more than 10,000 children since 2004.
AdWorld (Ireland)
- Alcohol Marketing Debate Gathers Steam
The debate about
alcohol marketing and its impact on consumption patterns in Ireland stepped up
a few gears this week at a meeting of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
& Children.
Irish Times
(Ireland) - Half of alcohol drinkers
'damaging their health'
HALF OF all
people who drink alcohol in Ireland do so at levels that are damaging their
health, an Oireachtas committee has heard.
The West
Australian (Australia) - Health concerns
over alcohol in music videos
Australia's
advertising watchdog has admitted it is powerless to stop an emerging trend of
"product placement" of alcohol in music videos watched by millions of
teenagers.
The Guardian (UK)
- Smoking and drinking in pregnancy
'harms 10,000 babies in UK each year'
An estimated
6,000 of the UK’s 800,000 babies a year are born with some form of fetal
alcohol spectrum, which can cause brain damage, physical problems and learning
disabilities.
The Guardian - Heavy drinking in pregnancy can alter
unborn babies' brains, study shows
Heavy drinking
during pregnancy could alter the genetic makeup of unborn babies' brains,
causing mental and behavioural problems.
Fiji Times (Fiji)
- Survey links alcohol use in schools to
peer pressure
A SURVEY by the
National Substance Abuse Advisory Council (NSAAC) has found that students in
the Central Division feature in the most number of alcohol abuse cases.
IceNews (Iceland)
- Icelandic alcohol producer complains
about too-high tax
The Icelandic
government takes 90 percent of the sale price of vodka, the president of the
country’s biggest drinks company says — claiming that the black market for
illegally produced home made hard liquors is thriving as a result.
Helsingin Sanomat
(Finland) - Authorities take hard line
on unlicensed serving of alcohol beverages on Restaurant Day
Next week, police
will keep an eye on people who set up restaurants for one day in order that
they would not sell alcohol in addition to food.
The Local
(Sweden) - Drunk drivers get shorter
sentences: study
Sober drivers who
injure another person in traffic often receive longer prison sentences than
drunk drivers, according to new research from the Swedish National Road and
Transport Institute (Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut - VTI).
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