Flanders Today
(Belgium) - Health minister rejects proposal to ban sale of
alcohol in night shops
Federal health
minister Maggie De Block has refused to accept a proposed ban on the
sale of alcohol in service stations and night shops. Proponents of
the measure argue it would make an important contribution to reducing
alcohol abuse among young people.
Time - Alcohol
Will Be Banned in Public Spaces During the 2022 Qatar World Cup
Qatari officials
have banned alcohol in streets and other public places during the
2022 FIFA World Cup in the country’s capital, Doha, organizers said
Tuesday. Officials in the Gulf state are also seeking alcohol bans in
World Cup stadiums during the tournament.
Drug and Alcohol
Review - How the alcohol industry relies on harmful use of alcohol
and works to protect its profits
The alcohol
industry have attempted to position themselves as collaborators in
alcohol policy making as a way of influencing policies away from a
focus on the drivers of the harmful use of alcohol (marketing, over
availability and affordability).
BBC News - Pubs
'should reveal alcohol calories'
Pub and bar owners
should provide warnings on the health dangers of alcohol or be denied
a licence, a parliamentary committee has heard.
Science Daily -
Stressed-out rats consume more alcohol, revealing related brain
chemistry
Rodents that had
been exposed to stress had a weakened alcohol-induced dopamine
response and voluntarily drank more alcohol compared to controls, a
new study has found. The blunted dopamine signaling to ethanol arose
due to changes in the circuitry in the ventral tegmental area, the
heart of the brain's reward system.
STV News
(Scotland) - Daytime alcohol sale ban suggested to curb addiction
A Scottish health
board has outlined radical proposals to ban shops from selling
alcohol before 5pm.
NHS Shetland says
curbing licensing hours would be a "big help" in tackling
the country's drinking problem.
CBC.ca (Canada) -
Alcohol servers should be trained to spot sexual assault, Toronto
councillor says
Coun. Kristyn
Wong-Tam would like bar and restaurant staff to be better trained to
spot and intervene in incidents of sexual harassment and violence.
The Guardian
(Scotland) - Scottish ministers ban police from searching children
for alcohol
Scottish ministers
have banned police from stopping and searching children for alcohol
without legal cause after they found little evidence to support its
use.
Travelers Today -
Ban On Alcoholic Drinks Before And During Flights Receives
Tremendous Support
Many have
supported the control of drinking alcohol before boarding an
airplane. As detailed on reports by Daily Mail, bans on drinking
alcohol before flights have been applied by some airlines already
such as Jet2. Jet2 has banned selling alcohol on their early morning
flights.
CTV News - New
data reveals alcohol's cancer toll
Comparing the
cancer risk of people who drink, to that of people who do not,
researchers calculated that alcohol was responsible for an estimated
five per cent of all new cancer cases.
The Arctic Journal
(Greenland) - Greenland settlement stops alcohol sales
High rates of
alcohol consumption in one far northern settlement have led the
government to declare it dry.
Interfax (Ukraine)
- Ukrainian government increases minimum alcohol prices
Ukraine's Cabinet
of Ministers has approved new increased minimum alcohol prices, in
particular, the floor price of a half-liter bottle of vodka was
increased from UAH 54.90 to UAH 69.78.
Total Croatia News
(Croatia) - Croatia in the World's Top 5 for Alcohol Consumption
The Portal Daily
Viz, with the help of data from the World Health Organization,
created a map which is solely based on the data of alcohol
consumption throughout the countries of world.
Irish Medical
Times (Ireland) - Senators lobbied heavily on alcohol bill
Multinational
corporations have been carrying out “extensive lobbying” of
members of the Seanad on the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015,
according to Senator David Norris.
Substance Abuse
Treatment, Prevention, and Policy - A narrative review of alcohol
consumption as a risk factor for global burden of disease
Since the original
Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) for alcohol consumption as part of
the Global Burden of Disease Study for 1990, there had been regular
updates of CRAs for alcohol from the World Health Organization and/or
the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
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