BNN News (Latvia)
- Alcohol buyers under the age of 25 will be required to present
Ids
The Latvian Saeima
has approved amendments to the Alcohol Circulation Law that will
limit alcohol consumption rates among young people. Amendments state
that buyers of alcoholic drinks who are 18 to 25 years old will be
obligated to present IDs when buying alcohol.
Eurotopics (Estonia) - Policymakers
must keep Estonians off booze
In the run-up to
the Midsummer celebrations next weekend, the number of
alcohol-related accidents has already risen in Estonia.
BBN (Lithuania) -
Alcohol consumption at record high in Lithuania
Lithuania keeps
suffering from net emigration, yet those who stay or return home are
consuming ever more alcohol, writes news2biz LITHUANIA.
The Local (Sweden)
- There's no such thing as a hangover 'cure': expert
With many Swedes
nursing headaches on Saturday following an evening of revelry to
celebrate Midsummer's Eve, one Swedish physician has brought some bad
news - there is no such thing as a hangover cure.
The Local (Sweden)
- Drunk men more likely to drown: study
Men are twice as
likely as women to drown, according to a new study, with middle-aged
men with alcohol in their bodies posing the greatest risk.
Jerusalem Post -
Israeli-US research: Turning off brain trigger may prevent alcohol
addictions
Israeli and US
researchers were able to identify and deactivate a brain pathway
linked to cravings for alcohol in rats.
Zee News (Turkey)
- Turkey passes bill restricting alcohol sales, ads
Turkey's
Parliament has passed legislation to ban all advertising of alcohol
and tighten restrictions on sales in the mainly Muslim but secular
country.
RT (Russia) -
Legal vodka production falls by one-third in Russia
Production of
Vodka decreased by 30% in May after the market was flooded with
illegally made product following a rise in excise duty earlier this
year.
Times LIVE (South
Africa) - NGO calls for ban on drinks ads
Alcohol
advertising encourages heavy drinking and puts people in danger of
contracting HIV through risky sexual behaviour, according to Soul
City.
Sin Chew Jit Poh
(EU) - Women more at risk than men of smoking, drinking: study
Women who smoke
and drink heavily are at a higher risk of early death than men who do
the same, a study said Tuesday. Data taken from a Europe-wide survey
of some 380,000 people aged 40 and older, revealed that women faced a
disproportional risk from the already well-known ill effects of heavy
alcohol and tobacco use.
WHO Europe
(Europe) - New publication: Status report on alcohol and health in
35 European countries 2013
WHO/Europe has
produced a new publication called "Status report on alcohol and
health in 35 European countries 2013".
The Local.de
(Germany) - German booze cheapest in Western Europe
Alcohol prices are
much lower Germany than in most of the rest of the EU, new figures
show, with a round of drinks only coming cheaper in three other EU
states.
Wall Street
Journal - Why She Drinks: Women and Alcohol Abuse
Women's growing
predilection for wine has a darker side—and the only way to deal
with it is to acknowledge the profound differences between how women
and men abuse alcohol.
ITV News (Wales) -
Alcohol awareness: Next generation learn of dangers
Future doctors
have been teaching the next generation of adults about the dangers of
alcohol - as figures show Wales has one of the worst records in
Europe when it comes to the proportion of 15-year-olds getting drunk.
3AW (Australia) -
Push to change legal drinking age from 18 to 21
Doctors and
academics are heading to Canberra pushing for the legal drinking age
to be lifted to 21.
The Australian
(Australia) - Dear alcohol: one woman's heart-rending story
YOUR life is going
well. And then WHAM, along comes some gut-wrenching news that rocks
you to the core. I receive a call to say my ex is ill in hospital.
Seriously ill.
GoodTherapy.org
(China) - Chinese Adolescent Alcohol Use Similar to That of
Western Countries
Adolescent and
young adult alcohol use has long been a social problem. Young people
who consume alcohol are more likely to have negative consequences
from use, including accidents, injuries, exposure to violence, risky
sexual activity, and experimentation with other substances.
Voxy (New Zealand)
- 'Good number of submissions received' on alcohol policy
A total of 293
submissions on the draft Local Alcohol Policy (LAP) have already been
received by the Christchurch City Council, as of midday today.
