Page 1 of 2 Study shows that minors who recognize ads for beer and spirits are more likely to drink BOSTON – Minors who were familiar with television alcohol advertisements were more likely to have tried alcoholic beverages and binge drink than th
TEENAGERS donned beer goggles to learn how alcohol can affect vision and decision-making. Southfield School for Girls in Kettering used goggles that impair vision in an alcohol awareness pack supplied by the Rotary Club of Kettering Huxloe to educate its p
The RISE Foundation is holding a half-day seminar on the legacy of shame and addiction in the family system and the devastating impact that addiction has on families on Monday,…
Main Category: Pediatrics / Children's Health Also Included In: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs Article Date: 24 Apr 2012 Los Angeles emergency rooms are reporting a growing number of teenagers coming in drunk after drinking cheap liquid hand saniti
There are some 1.8 billion adolescents (those aged 10-24 years) in the world today, comprising more than a quarter of the world's population. However, the first paper in The Lancet Series on Adolescen
A protein has been identified that plays a key role in the link between drinking alcohol and breast cancer. Women with higher levels of the molecule in their breasts are more likely to develop cancer if they drink too much, research suggests.
Low-alcohol beers appear to be gaining in popularity in the off-trade, thanks in part to lower duty on beers below 2.8% abv, with sales at one supermarket rising by almost 50%.
THE LATEST Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey is something of a curate’s egg. A welcome reduction in drinking and smoking among 9 to 18-year-olds in the Republic must be set against continuing poor levels of physical activity and an increase in the number of children who say they
Eight off-licences sold alcohol to a 16-year-old boy in an undercover operation by gardaà in Dundalk, Co Louth, as part of measures to deal with the problem of youths drinking at weekends.
Raising the price of ultra-cheap lager, gin and vodka will save more than 1,000 lives each year, according to new research today.