Today (26.8.14) at the launch of the Irish Heart Foundation's annual September Heart Month campaign, former Father Ted actor Frank Kelly joined heart transplant survivor and Ireland's favourite maitre d'…
More than 3,500 offenders being supervised by probation services in Northern Ireland have problems with drug and alcohol misuse. From the Belfast Telegraph The number equates to more than 70%…
Results from the fifth Adult Drinking Patterns Survey were published today. ~ Tuesday, 19 August 2014 The survey was conducted between 1 October 2013 and 30 November 2013 across a…
Dr Declan Bedford explains how implementing evidence-based policy and legislation has reduced drink driving on our roads from Alcohol Action Ireland on Vimeo.
Australians have become accustomed to labels on cigarettes warning about the risk of smoking causing cancer and other diseases. And our research, published in the latest edition of BMC Public…
People living in states with stronger alcohol policy environments have a substantially lower likelihood of any binge drinking, frequent binge drinking, and high-intensity binge drinking, according to a new study…
CIGARETTE-LIKE warnings should be made compulsory on alcohol packaging in order to inform the public of the dangers of excessive drinking, campaigners have said. From Independent.ie Politicians and awareness groups…
Alcohol Action Ireland, the national charity for alcohol-related issues, has called on pubs and nightclubs not to use cheap alcohol promotions to target young people planning on celebrating their Leaving…
Health warnings should be compulsory on bottles of wine, beer and spirits to raise awareness of the dangers of excessive drinking and the growing problem of liver disease, a group…
The father of a 19-year-old man who died by suicide has described Joan Burton's new 'short form' death certificates which omit the cause of death as "futile and a waste…