DrinkHelp.ie, a new website to assist people seeking help and advice in relation to alcohol-related issues, has been launched by Alcohol Action Ireland. DrinkHelp.ie has been developed by Alcohol Action…
Doctors from the Royal College of Physicians are calling on the government to introduce a minimum price for a unit of alcohol. From the Irish Examiner It is after new…
Anna Soubry said she was in favour of harsh new rules introducing plain cigarette packaging and a minimum price for alcohol
Ireland operates as a “conveyor belt” for the alcohol industry with 60,000 children starting to drink every single year, an Oireachtas committee has heard. By Cormac O'Keeffe in the Irish…
’We facilitate the drinks industry to groom our children,' psychiatrist tells committee Dr Bobby Smyth, consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist with Alcohol Action Ireland: it was with “typical arrogance” that…
Liver disease is the cause of a considerable burden of illness across the European Union (EU), investigators report in The Journal of Hepatology. The authors calculate that 170,000 deaths each…
From the Irish Daily Mirror. April 18, 2013.
From The Herald. April 18, 2013
DOCTORS today demanded a ban on alcohol sponsorship of sporting events warning the drinks industry is “grooming” child drinkers. From independent.ie Treacy Hogan And one of the country's leading doctors…