England is facing a rising tide of fatal liver disease, the Chief Medical Officer has warned, fuelled by obesity, alcohol and preventable infections. From The Telegraph In her first report…
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England is facing a rising tide of fatal liver disease, the Chief Medical Officer has warned, fuelled by obesity, alcohol and preventable infections.
These figures underline the urgent need for a 50p minimum unit price for alcohol, which would hit younger drinkers and heavy drinkers, while not greatly affecting moderate drinkers.
A 21-year-old teacher died while on holiday in Bali two days after drinking a local spirit which her family believe may have killed her.
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 RóisÃn Burke (21), from Oaklawn West in Leixlip, Co Kildare, had been working in Jakarta, Indonesia, as an English teacher and was holidaying on t
A BINGE-DRINKING mother left her two young children abandoned at home alone for more than 16 hours while she went on a bender. The woman (40) left her children, aged nine and six, on their own at their west Dublin home on two occasions to go on drinking sessions lasting several days.
Alcohol companies are following the lead of the tobacco industry, launching a social media campaign to promote the virtues of their product in the face of Government crackdowns.
The alcohol industry in Scotland, including retailer and manufacturers, is to be targeted in a new crackdown on tax cheats.
Young people in the UK are more likely to have been drunk by the age of 13 than those in almost any other country, according to a study. Those aged 15 to 16 are more likely to have been drunk at least once in the last month than their counterparts almost anywhere els