Financial pressures and recessionary worries have triggered an alarming spike in addiction problems in Ireland. A leading Irish addiction treatment centre has revealed that there has been a marked increase…
Alcohol companies world-wide are lining up to fight a Thai plan to require graphic warning labels about alcohol on the country's domestic and imported beer, wine and liquor bottles. The…
In the Life After Cancer Epidemiology (LACE) study, 1,897 participants diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer between 1997 and 2000 and recruited on average 2 years post-breast cancer diagnosis were evaluated…
Teenagers are to be deployed by the gardai in a crackdown on the sale of alcohol to underage customers. Gardai have been given the power to use the youngsters to…
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Ladies and Gentlemen. It is an honour for me to be asked to open this important conference. I want to thank the CEO and Chair of Alcohol Action Ireland for…
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New research suggests that up to a fifth of all cases of early onset dementia are alcohol related. That's nearly twice the figure suggested by earlier estimates. Drug and Alcohol…
The Scottish Government will "carefully consider" Labour calls to ban caffeinated alcoholic drinks such as Buckfast, Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said. But she insisted there is no evidence…