Daily Nation
(Kenya) - Alcohol turning our children into zombies!
Up to the late
1970s, it was rare to encounter a young man staggering home or lying
by the roadside dead drunk. These days, it is more common to spot
young people in a drunken stupor than elderly persons.
Independent Online
(South Africa) - 'Alcohol the enemy of all drivers'
Transport
authorities have slated drivers for continuing to drive while under
the influence of liquor, saying 60-65 percent of all road fatalities,
specially those over weekends, are as a result of alcohol abuse by
drivers.
Liverpool Echo
(UK) - Liverpool named one of country’s alcohol abuse capitals
LIVERPOOL was
named one of the worst cities in the country for alcohol abuse for
the third successive year. As thousands head out to bars and clubs to
welcome in the New Year tonight, the ECHO can reveal more people were
admitted to hospital because of alcohol here than anywhere else in
the country – except for Manchester.
Indian Express
(UK) - Middle-aged women consuming more alcohol than teen
daughters
Middle-aged
professional women are drinking more alcohol than their daughters,
according to official figures.
Gizmodo Australia
(Australia) - What Happens When You Get Alcohol Poisoning?
As regular Happy
Hour readers know, there’s nothing we like more than finding new,
innovative and fun approaches to drinking. But there’s a darker
side that must be acknowledged. Specifically, you can poison yourself
and die.
Huffington Post -
The Effects Of Alcohol In The Body (INFOGRAPHIC)
Most of us know
that drinking too much can lead to car accidents, addictions or
worse. We know drinking a little can make us giggly or weepy, lose
our balance or lose our lunch, feel ravenously hungry the morning
after or want nothing more than to be still in a dark room until that
terrible pounding subsides.
The Bay of Plenty
Times (New Zealand) - Police plan hard line on alcohol
Police will be
taking a hard line on alcohol at New Year celebrations tonight but
they predict a relatively orderly night in contrast to the chaos they
encountered more than a decade ago when riots broke out in Mount
Maunganui.
Kyiv Post
(Ukraine) - Regions Party MPs suggest ban on alcohol sale at night
Members of
Parliament from the Regions Party faction Iryna Berezhna and Andriy
Pinchuk suggest that the sale of beer, alcoholic beverages and
low-alcohol drinks should be banned in Ukraine from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m.
except for at restaurants and cafés.
The Daily
Telegraph (Australia) - Editorial: Governments cannot afford to
ignore alcohol abuse
INEVITABLY it will
be decried in some quarters as yet another example of the nanny state
in full flow. Yet basic common sense dictates that if governments
have a responsibility for the health of their citizens then alcohol
abuse cannot be ignored.
Military.com (USA)
- Study: Alcohol Culture Taking Toll
Thomas Brennan was
still unloading his bags at his first duty station when he saw the
other Marines drinking on the catwalks.
RT (Russia) -
Russians to drink 1.5bn liters of alcohol over New Year holidays
If all the bottles
of alcohol drunk by Russians during the upcoming 10-day holidays were
put on the equator, they’d wrap the globe 17 times. Defying
stereotypes, statistics say vodka is no longer the nation’s
favorite strong alcohol drink.
Kyiv Post (Russia)
- Russian alcohol preferences not changing, vodka, beer still tops
Russians'
preferences in alcoholic beverages are not changing, and vodka and
beer are still top of the heap, as evidenced by Federal State
Statistics Service (Rosstat) figures for January-November released on
Saturday.
euronews (Poland)
- Several die in Poland after drinking poisoned alcohol
A seventh person
is believed to have died in Poland as a result of drinking
contaminated alcohol.
Middle East Online
(Tunisia) - Islamist-led Tunisia to raise alcohol duty
The Islamist-led
ruling coalition in Tunisia raised alcohol duty on Wednesday in a bid
to bolster state coffers despite criticism from rival Islamists that
it was wrong to profit from an activity prohibited by the faith.
Futurity: Research
News - Lasting impact from alcohol exposure in utero
Even low levels of
prenatal alcohol exposure impact brain development and the effects
persist into adulthood, new research suggests.
The Hindu (India)
- Most accidents on New Year day are due to drunken driving, say
police
R. Vinod Kumar
(25), a cab driver and a resident of Murphy Town, was returning home
from M.G. Road with his friend after ushering in the New Year last
year. His motorcycle hit a car and Kumar sustained severe head
injuries. He died on the way to hospital.
Scotsman
(Scotland) - Minister in last-minute plea over alcohol pricing
The health
secretary yesterday made a last-minute attempt to persuade health
ministers in the European Union to back his plan for a minimum unit
price for alcohol.
French Tribune
(France) - Four-Fifth of the College Engaged in Alcohol
Consumption
As reported by the
National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, alcohol drinking
has become a very big problem among the college students.
Greek Reporter
(Greece) - Alcohol Tax Hike Cuts Greek Sales
Just as increased
taxes on restaurants and bars have driven down sales and revenues, a
big hike in taxes on alcoholic drinks in Greece in a desperate bid to
raise money has also backfired, sending tax revenues down and cutting
consumption in half.
Courier Mail -
Alcohol companies market to children on Facebook and internet
ALCOHOL companies
are avoiding restrictions on marketing to children by using Facebook
and the internet, with authorities investigating whether advertising
codes need to be overhauled.
Telegraph.co.uk
(Russia) - Beer to become 'alcohol' in Russia on New Year's Day
Many Russians
consider beer a soft drink – a light refresher that can be guzzled
on the way to work or sucked down in great quantities before a picnic
and a swim in the river.
