The Guardian (UK)
- Young people increasingly alcohol abstainers or risky drinkers,
drug survey finds
National drug
survey finds smoking on the decline and methamphetamine use stable,
but people in remote areas much more likely to use drugs.
Zee News - Empty
liquor bottles can reveal alcohol use
Can counting the
empty liquor bottles in dustbins gauge drinking habits of people?
Yes, say researchers, adding that this is an inexpensive, unobtrusive
and relatively easy method.
Mirror.co.uk (UK)
- The lethal Polish booze that's 95% alcohol available to
teenagers on internet
Online shopping
giant Amazon has halted sales of the 95%-alcohol vodka that killed a
girl at her 18th birthday party.
TheParliamentMagazine.eu
(EU) - Alcohol must be 'top public health priority'
Raising awareness
and developing a common evidence base are crucial to reducing
alcohol-related harm, write Gauden Galea and Lars Møller.
The West
Australian (Australia) - Worry over teen alcohol harm
Alcohol-fuelled
violence, drink-driving and damage to developing brains are the
biggest fears of West Australians when it comes to young people
drinking.
ITAR-TASS (Russia)
- Alcohol to blame for half of suicides in Russia — analysts
Russia is among
the top ten countries with the highest suicide rates with one in two
cases related to alcoholism, professor of the Serbsky Institute’s
laboratory of ecological and social problems says.
Romania-Insider.com
(Romania) - Study: One in ten young Romanians drink alcohol
several times a week
One in ten young
Romanians drink alcohol several times a week, while 44% don’t
consume alcohol at all, according to a study published on the
Romanian Ministry of Youth’s website. Almost 20% of respondents say
they drink alcohol once every few months, 13% – few times a month,
8% – once a month and 7% – once a week.
Medical Daily -
Long-Term Effects Of Alcohol Impair Brain's Pathways That Underlie
Impulse Control
The idea alcohol
has negative effects on the brain isn’t anything new. Previous
studies, however, have only measured these effects through behavior
and post-mortem studies — not scans of the actual brain.
Scottish Daily
Record (Scotland) - Young people's alcohol awareness campaign team
up to raise cash for vulnerable kids
CAT COCHRANE
explains how the groups Whose Round and Best Bar None have combined
to raise cash for vulnerable children across Scotland throughout the
festive period.
USA TODAY (USA) -
Study: Heavy drinkers are rarely alcoholics
A new study by the
CDC and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
finds that 1 in 3 American adults meet the definition of heavy
drinking—for men, having five or more drinks in one sitting or 15
or more in a week; for women, having four or more drinks in one
sitting or eight or more in a week.
Scotsman -
Drinkers snubbing ‘unrealistic’ alcohol limits
DRINKERS are
disregarding alcohol guidelines because they say the limits are too
removed from their own lifestyle.
