Scottish Daily Record (Scotland) -
Dad's heartbreaking letter to dead daughter who drank herself to
death at just 24 as he calls for radical change to alcohol laws
JIM Thomson penned
the heart-rending letter to his daughter Leigh which we publish today
and said: "Your illness meant things were just beyond your
control. I just hope that lessons can be learned from your
situation."
The Conversation
UK (UK) - Medicating alcohol problems shouldn’t mask moralising
about ‘good’ and ‘bad’ drinking
The use of
nalmefene to reduce alcohol consumption was recently endorsed by the
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Nalmefene
is a drug that is used to incrementally reduce cravings for alcohol.
NICE recommends it is used, alongside psychosocial treatments such as
counselling, to treat people regarded as dependent on alcohol.
Health24.com -
Alcohol, not Ebola, possible cause of Briton's death in Macedonia
Doctors in
Macedonia have "serious indications" that alcohol, not
Ebola, may have killed a British man visiting the Balkan country, a
senior health official said on Friday.
HealthCanal.com -
Alcohol awareness needed to beat cancer
A Monash
University and Cancer Council New South Wales study suggests only 47
per cent of the general public know that alcohol consumption is a
risk factor for cancer.
Times of India -
Moderate alcohol intake affects sperm quality
The study,
published in the journal BMJ Open, examined 1,200 Danish male
military recruits between the ages of 18 and 28 years, all of whom
underwent a medical examination between 2008 and 2012.
The Guardian
(Australia) - Half of Australians unaware excessive alcohol
increases cancer risk
Many Australians
are putting themselves at risk of developing cancer because they have
no idea that drinking too much alcohol is an important risk factor,
new research shows.
Herald Sun
(Australia) - Booze takes deadly toll as alcohol problems hit
harder than drugs
The figures show
more than 26,000 Victorians drank themselves into hospital beds in
2012-13 — more than three times those hospitalised for using
illicit drugs.
Irish Medical
Times (Ireland) - Another round in the alcohol debate
The great debate
over our love affair with alcohol is never far from our lips, but at
Budget time both sides tend to raise their voices, if not their
glasses, that bit more.
Otago Daily Times
(New Zealand) - Massive response to DCC alcohol plan
Plans to bring
forward the 4am closing time of Dunedin bars have sparked the highest
number of submissions to the Dunedin City Council for any issue in
years.
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