TIME - This is What Happens When You
Drive on Pot and Alcohol
Researchers took a
look at yearly surveys of over 72,000 U.S. high school seniors from
1976 to 2011, and assessed their simultaneous use of pot and alcohol.
They found that teens who reported using both at the same time were
50 to 90% more likely to admit to unsafe driving than teens who did
not smoke pot or drink.
CBS Local - Study:
Raising Price Of Alcohol May Lower Violence
According to a new
study, increasing the price of alcohol may help decrease the number
of violent crimes.
The Guardian (UK)
- Cost of alcohol credited for drop in serious violence in England
and Wales
A decline in binge
drinking and the rising price of alcohol is behind a dramatic 12%
fall in the number of people injured in serious violence across
England and Wales last year, a pioneering academic research study
claims.
Newsworks.org -
Why alcohol marketing targeting women has public health
researchers concerned
The liquor cabinet
in David Jernigan's office is fully stocked—mostly with flavored,
fruity, carbonated and pink-labeled--adult beverages. Maybe it's a
surprise to find this stash in the office of a public health
professor, but his liquor bottles are all part of Jernigan's work. He
tracks alcohol advertising.
Headlines &
Global News - Teen Alcohol Use Linked To Long-Term Effects On
Decision Making
Teen drinking
alters brain chemistry leading to impairment in decision making in
adulthood, a new study finds.
RT (Russia) -
Online booze ban: Lawmakers target internet alcohol sales
A ruling party MP
has drafted a bill banning online sales of alcohol in order to
improve state control in this sphere and protect customers from
buying uncertified and potentially dangerous drinks.
The Establishment
Post (Indonesia) - A New Regulation on the Sale of Alcohol in
Indonesia
Indonesia’s
Ministry of Commerce issued a new regulation mid-April as an attempt
to control and oversee procurement and distribution, as well as sale
of alcohol in Indonesia. Under the new regulation, sale of alcoholic
beverages in the retail market can only be done through retailers in
duty free shops, or places specified by the regent, mayor, or
governor to specific areas.
Al-Monitor
(Israel) - Violence, alcohol take toll on Israeli youth
After the
commotion died down and most of the young people had fled the place,
a large puddle of blood was left behind. Right beside it lay a
teenager, barely 18, fluttering between life and death. Stricken by
panic, his friends kneeled beside him in a state of total loss.
The Guardian (UK)
- Alcohol industry's complaints about TV advert's cancer link
thrown out
Alcohol industry
complaints that a television advertisement linking drinking with an
increased risk of cancer was misleading have been thrown out.
Stuff.co.nz (New
Zealand) - Alcohol-pricing policy delay slammed
Justice Minister
Judith Collins' decision to wait and see on a policy that could
significantly reduce alcohol harm has been called election-year
cowardice.
CBC.ca (Canada) -
Alcohol blamed for thousands of new cancer cases annually in
Ontario
Alcohol
consumption is linked to an estimated 1,000 to 3,000 new cases of
cancer in Ontario a year, the province’s cancer agency says.
Ottawa Citizen -
‘No safe limit for alcohol,’ says cancer prevention group
An Ontario cancer
group is calling on the LCBO to stop its plans for a grocery store
expansion project after releasing a report Tuesday calling alcohol a
serious cause of cancer in the province.
BBC News (UK) -
Alcohol 'more damaging than heroin' says Prof David Nutt
The government's
former drugs adviser, Prof David Nutt, believes alcohol is damaging
society more than heroin.
