Most ?date rapes? in Ireland involve alcohol rather than any other drug, a study in Galway has found. Stacey Scriver Furlong of the NUIG Global Women?s Studies said that three out of four ?date rape? cases in this country involve alcohol. She said that that secondary school children needed to be ed

"VERY high levels of alcohol consumption" are implicated in the majority of rapes of young women, most of whom have also been drinking, according to Dr Stacey Scriver of global women?s studies at the National University of Ireland Galway. a d v e r t i s e m e n t Dr Scriver was speaking at an eve

THERE is substantial research in the US and Canada around the effects of alcohol consumption in pregnancy, many of which will manifest only when the child has any combination of attention deficit, autistic, learning and behavioural problems. a d v e r t i s e m e n t The fetal brain develops right