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Tallinn is monitoring food ordering platforms to make sure minors do not use them to order alcohol, said new deputy mayor for business Margot Roose (Eesti 200) on Monday.
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UN News (EU) - Teen alcohol and nicotine
use in Europe is up, WHO urges preventive measures
Smoking and drinking is on the rise among teenagers in Europe, Central Asia
and Canada, and girls now match or even exceed boys when it comes to substance
use, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a new report on Thursday.
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BBC (UK) - England child alcohol use tops
global chart, finds WHO report
A third of 11-year-olds and more than half of 13-year-olds in England have
drunk alcohol - putting it top out of 44 countries examined in a report by
global health experts.
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European Public Health Alliance (EU) - Urgent
Call for Advancing Public Health Policies in Tobacco and Alcohol Control
EPHA, together with its most active members dedicated to combating cancer
and its risk factors, stands united in expressing our shared concern over the
recent, highly concerning and unjustified changes to the European Commission’s
Beating Cancer Plan implementation roadmap.
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Baltic News Network (Latvia) - Alcohol
consumption in Latvia equated with epidemic; no new initiatives suggested
Alcohol consumption in Latvia has reached a level at which it is equated
with an epidemic. This means immediate and complex measures are needed in order
to combat this problem more decisively, as concluded by the National Council
for Prevention of Alcoholism on Thursday, the 25th of April.
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Health Policy Watch - Diabetes, Air
Pollution and Alcohol are Leading Risk Factors for Dementia – Nature
A team of researchers from the Nuffield Department of Clinical
Neurosciences at the University of Oxford have identified diabetes,
traffic-related air pollution exposures and alcohol use as the most harmful out
of 15 modifiable risk factors for dementia.
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PsyPost - Stress and alcohol consumption
increase risk of Alzheimer’s disease
A review of the available scientific literature indicates that alcohol
consumption and exposure to stress are associated with an increased risk of
Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. However, the specific mechanisms
responsible for this association remain unknown. The paper was published in
Neurobiology of Stress.
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Holyrood Website (Scotland) - Scotland
continues to have the highest rate of alcohol deaths in the UK
Scotland continues to have the highest rate of alcohol deaths in the UK,
according to new figures published by the Office for National Statistics.
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Irish Examiner (Ireland) - Mayo's Pádraig O’Hora says alcohol companies are
contravening the law
Mayo footballer Pádraig O’Hora says alcohol companies are contravening the
law by promoting alcohol-free products at sports events.
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PsyPost - Scientists
link small changes in facial and brain structure to low/moderate prenatal
alcohol exposure
Recent scientific studies reveal that even low levels of alcohol
consumption during pregnancy might subtly alter fetal craniofacial development
and specific brain structures, although these changes do not appear to
significantly impact broader socio-cognitive development in early childhood.
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Medical Xpress - How
young adults perceive the risk of a single drink versus risk in binge drinking
When drinking choices are perceived as "just one drink," with
each single drink representing relatively slight risk, it may ironically lead
to heavier drinking and alcohol-related harms.
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AlcoholAndCancer (Denmark)
- Only one in ten Danes knows that alcohol increases the risk of breast
cancer
Alcohol is a significant risk factor for cancer, which most Danes are
unaware of. A new survey from the Danish Cancer Society reveals that only 10%
of Danes are aware of the link between alcohol and breast cancer. Alarmingly,
75% do not know about the connection between alcohol and cancer in general.
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AlcoholAndCancer - New
insights into the connections between alcohol consumption and aggressive liver
cancer
While heavy drinking is a well-established risk factor for liver cancer,
the specific mechanisms by which alcohol contributes to A-HCC remain unclear.
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NordAN (Denmark) - Denmark:
Many feel pressured to drink alcohol
Both the very young and adults experience pressure to drink alcohol in the
company of friends and family. It is far from always the desire for beer or
wine that leads the population to drink. This is shown by a comprehensive
population survey conducted by YouGov for TrygFonden.
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