Metro (UK) - Why most of us are
probably drinking too much for our health
You might have
heard of Black Friday – the term the emergency services apply to
the last Friday before Christmas, when pre-Yuletide revelling, and
therefore drunken disasters, are at their peak.
10News (USA) - US
Border Patrol has 'alarming' alcohol problem, says internal memo and
inside source
An internal memo
obtained by Team 10 shows grave concern by the head of the U.S.
Border Patrol about drinking and driving among agents.
International
Business Times AU (Australia) - Aussie Mums in NSW Suffering from
Alcohol, Drug Addiction Could Lose Custody of Babies
A law is being
proposed in New South Wales, Australia, in which mothers who are drug
or alcohol addicts could lose custody of their babies.
CapitalFM (UK) -
New Hard-Hitting Alcohol Ads In The North East
North East
drinkers are being warned that alcohol is in the same cancer causing
category as tobacco smoke in new hard-hitting ads.
Daily Mail (UK) -
Number of shops with 24-hour licences to sell alcohol reaches
record high
The number of
supermarkets and convenience stores selling alcohol round the clock
shot up last year, new figures showed yesterday.
Mirror.co.uk (UK)
- MILLIONS of Brits do not know that drinking too much alcohol
raises risk of cancer
Millions of Brits
do not know that drinking too much alcohol raises their risk of
cancer, a poll found. Some 86% of 2,000 people surveyed admitted they
did not know booze increases the risk of breast cancer.
Science Daily -
Alcohol Ads in US Magazines Still Expose Consumers to Risky
Content, Messages
A new report from
the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) at the Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health calls into question whether
existing federal and voluntary standards for alcohol advertisements
curtail potentially damaging content and protect public health.
Deccan Herald
(India) - Govt policy inadequate to check alcohol abuse: Health
Secy
Government's
response on the issue of dealing with alcohol abuse has been
inadequate as it is torn between the need to treat liquor sale as
revenue priority and the "strong" case for ban on its use,
a senior Health official said here.
Al Jazeera America
- How prevalent is alcohol consumption among pregnant women?
In her new book,
“Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol,”
journalist Ann Dowsett Johnston explores the startling rise in
alcohol abuse and dependence among women. As women have worked to
close the gender gap in their careers and family life, they have also
rapidly caught up to men in alcohol consumption.
The Irish Times
(Ireland) - Alcohol is not a solution in which we should expect
problems to dissolve
There has been
much debate and discussion in Ireland recently about intoxicating
substances and our relationship with them. In the past few days
attention has centred on cannabis but in previous weeks the focus was
very much on our nation’s favourite drug: alcohol.
Medical Xpress -
Younger teens more likely to use alcohol if they live near bottle
shops
Deakin University
researchers have found higher rates of underage drinking among young
people who live in areas with a high number of alcohol outlets.
Northampton
Chronicle & Echo (UK) - Quarter of child abuse cases linked to
alcohol, Northamptonshire Police says
Northamptonshire
Police is raising awareness of the problems related to excessive
drinking during a special awareness week.
Xinhua
(China) - WHO
meeting in China's Hong Kong addresses teen drinking
Representatives
from countries and areas in the Western Pacific Region of the World
Health Organization (WHO) are taking part in a three-day meeting in
China's Hong Kong starting Tuesday to address the harmful use of
alcohol by young people.
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