Alcohol a real age-old issue

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It is called the ''silver tsunami'', the wave of ageing baby boomers about to hit the health system with alcohol and drug problems. Preliminary findings from a UNSW study at the Prince of Wales Hospital suggest almost one in five people over 60 presenting at aged care services may be substance abus

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Woman (21) may have died after drinking spirit in Bali, family says

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A teacher on holiday in Bali died two days after drinking a local spirit which her family believe may have killed her. Dublin Coroner’s Court heard that Róisín Burke (21), from Oaklawn West in Leixlip, Co Kildare, had been working in Jakarta, Indonesia, as an English teacher and was holidaying on t

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