Alcohol consumption in Finland continued to decline in 2023, according to latest statistics from the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL).
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UT Southwestern Medical Center - Experts
call for more clinical trials on alcohol use, liver disease
More clinical research is needed to investigate how reducing alcohol
consumption in patients with alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) may slow
disease progression and improve outcomes, according to an international task
force of experts from more than two dozen institutions including UT
Southwestern Medical Center.
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Newsweek (USA) - Gen Z is Abandoning
Alcohol
Some 64 percent of legal-drinking-age Gen Zers in the U.S. said they had
not consumed alcohol in the six months leading up to May, according to the
International Wine and Spirits Record (IWSR), a global drinks data and
analytics provider.
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RNZ (New Zealand) - 'Pitiful' alcohol levy
increase adds less than half a cent to the price of a can of beer
The alcohol levy has been raised - but by less than half the amount that
would even cover inflation. Cabinet has agreed to increase the alcohol levy,
which funds alcohol harm reduction measures, for the first time since 2009.
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The Sofia Globe (Bulgaria)
- Eurostat: Bulgaria’s price levels for alcohol and tobacco lowest in EU
In 2023, the price level for alcohol and tobacco was 3.2 times higher in
Ireland, the most expensive country, than in Bulgaria, the least expensive,
European Union statistics agency Eurostat said on June 20.
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Women's Agenda
(Australia) - Children can’t legally buy alcohol, but companies can still
bombard them with marketing
Children and young people under 18 can’t legally buy alcohol – for very
good reasons. Despite this, alcohol companies and digital platforms can mine
their digital data and aggressively target them with online marketing.
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Ministry of Health –
Manatū Hauora (New Zealand) - Costs of alcohol harms in New Zealand:
Updating the evidence with recent research
The Public Health Agency, within the Ministry of Health, commissioned the
New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) to conduct an updated
analysis of the costs of alcohol related harm in New Zealand.
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FORUT - What can we
learn from alcohol policy and advocacy in low- and middle-income countries?
In the special issue of the International Journal of Alcohol and Drug
Research on “Alcohol Prevention Research and Policy Development in Low- and
Middle-Income Countries,” FORUT and Movendi supported the publication of
articles by authors from low- and middle-income countries.
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NordAN (Latvia) - LATVIA:
Social Affairs Committee supports a bill to reduce alcohol consumption in
society
To reduce alcohol consumption in society, the Social and Labor Affairs
Committee on Wednesday, June 5, supported amendments to the Law on Alcoholic
Beverages Circulation in its third reading.
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BMA (UK) - Evidence
to support the asks in our alcohol, drugs and driving consensus statement
Statistics on the harms of alcohol and drugs, including in relation to road
harm caused by substance use, highlight the need for policy change, such as
those we call for in our consensus statement.
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The Australian
(Australia) - New study found women drinking alcohol in high levels, despite
health warnings
Alarming new research has found women in Australia are drinking alcohol at
dangerous levels despite knowing the harm it can bring.
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AlcoholAndCancer
(France) - Ligue contre le cancer takes on RATP over alcohol ads in metro
In a bold move to safeguard public health, the Ligue contre le cancer,
supported by France Assos Santé, Unaf, FNAS, and Entraid’addict, has filed a
complaint against the Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP).
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Alcohol Awareness
(Finland) – Invisible Children
The program of Finland´s Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s government includes
several reforms that shift the focus of alcohol regulation away from social and
health policy. The most concerning of these reforms is the proposal for alcohol
home delivery, which risks increasing alcohol consumption in homes where
children are the invisible victims.
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