THE RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Dmitry Medvedev has signed a new law which ends a legal quirk where beer was considered ‘food’. Previous laws decreed that anything with less than 10 per cent ethanol content was not deemed ‘alcoholic’ – meaning that beer was essentially sold as if it was entirely unregulated.
Sir, – Your report on alcohol-related deaths among people who were alcohol dependent (Home News, July 14th) yet again underlines the grave levels of alcohol misuse in this country.
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WHILE NEW research is painting a clearer picture of the links between alcohol and cancer, in Ireland statistical information is still difficult to assess.
The sale of cheap, below-cost, alcohol "should be banned" a Government spokesman has said. Deputy John Perry, speaking on behalf of Health Minister James Reilly, said the central aim of…
on 18/07/2011 00:00:00 Deputy John Perry, speaking on behalf of Health Minister James Reilly, said the central aim of the upcoming National Substance Misuse Strategy (NSMS), was to "reduce the amount of alcohol we drink in society".
THE FRENCH call it le binge drinking and consider it one of the more obnoxious imports from across the channel. Now officials in Lyons have introduced a night-time ban on retail sales of alcohol to combat what is seen as a nasty Anglo-Saxon habit sweeping France.
Acute stress is thought to precipitate alcohol drinking. Yet the ways that acute stress can increase alcohol consumption are unclear. A new study investigated whether different phases of response to an acute stressor can alter the subjective effects of alcohol.
THE controversial alcopops tax has worked to curb young people's drinking but sweeping changes are needed to our haphazard alcohol tax regime to tackle widespread abuse, a new report says.
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