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Evelyn Gillan: The evidence is indisputable: alcohol price is key to protecting individuals and society from harm

  • Post published:04/12/2012
  • Post category:News

From The Scotsman Published on Tuesday 4 December 2012 02:11 Recent improvements in alcohol-related deaths in Scotland are to be welcomed, but the fact remains that we have the highest…

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Children ‘more likely to get drunk’ if parents are heavy drinkers

  • Post published:04/12/2012
  • Post category:World News

Children are almost twice as likely to have been drunk or consuming alcohol every month if their parents are heavy drinkers, a survey has found.

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For the first time in 20 years, Scots are drinking less

  • Post published:04/12/2012
  • Post category:World News

ALCOHOL consumption in Scotland has fallen for two years in a row, as the price of alcohol has increased, a new NHS report has shown for the first time.

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Evelyn Gillan: The evidence is indisputable: alcohol price is key to protecting individuals and society from harm

  • Post published:04/12/2012
  • Post category:World News

Recent improvements in alcohol-related deaths in Scotland are to be welcomed, but the fact remains that we have the highest level of alcohol consumption in the UK and one of the highest rates

Continue ReadingEvelyn Gillan: The evidence is indisputable: alcohol price is key to protecting individuals and society from harm

‘Binge-drinking gene’ discovered

  • Post published:04/12/2012
  • Post category:World News

Scientists believe some people have a gene that hard-wires them for binge drinking by boosting levels of a happy brain chemical triggered by alcohol.

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Northern Ireland Assembly

  • Post published:03/12/2012
  • Post category:World News

Two hundred and fifty-two people died in Northern Ireland in 2011 as a direct result of alcohol abuse, the Social Development Minister said, on 3 December 2012.

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Alcohol-related mortality rate now two and a half times higher than early 1980s

  • Post published:03/12/2012
  • Post category:World News

SCOTLAND’S alcohol-related mortality rate is two and a half times higher than it was in the early 1980s, new figures show. • Death rates from drink remains nearly twice as high as in England and Wales • People in deprived are

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Government failure to tackle alcohol abuse had “devastating” impact on society – health specialist

  • Post published:03/12/2012
  • Post category:News

From TheJournal.ie THE FAILURE OF successive governments to develop a National Alcohol Policy has had a  “devastating ” impact on Irish society in general and family life in particular according to…

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Publicans seek 15% ‘lid levy’ on off-licences

  • Post published:03/12/2012
  • Post category:News

From the Irish Examiner By Seán McCárthaigh Saturday, December 01, 2012 Publicans have called on the Government to introduce a novel "lid levy" of 15% on all off-licence sales in…

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Police launch nationwide crackdown on alcohol-related violence

  • Post published:02/12/2012
  • Post category:World News

REVELLERS who refuse to leave a pub or a club or fail to obey police orders will be hit with minimum $550 on-the-spot fines as part of the biggest crackdown on alcohol-related violence in Australia's history.

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