ALCOHOL causes more deaths worldwide than AIDS, tuberculosis or violence, the World Health Organisation has warned.

Alcohol causes nearly 4 per cent of deaths worldwide, more than AIDS, tuberculosis or violence, the World Health Organisation said today. Rising incomes have triggered more drinking in heavily populated countries in Africa and Asia, including India and South Africa, and binge drinking is a problem

Higher alcohol consumption in late adolescence often continues into adulthood and is associated with long-term alcohol problems including dependence, a new study has suggested. The findings published in the Public Library of Science journal concluded there was ?consistent evidence? greater alcohol

LINKING the tragic deaths in rural Ireland of older people by suicide to a "new puritanism surrounding even the most restrained cases of drinking and driving" (Jan 28) is astonishing in its over simplicity.