The Australian National Preventative Health Agency is expected to propose this week that cheap wine be banned from sale in Australia. The idea of a national 'floor price' on alcohol, which would see drinkers made to pay between 8 and 10 dollars for a bottle of grog, has been welcomed by health grou
PLANS to introduce minimum pricing on alcohol in Scotland have been postponed indefinitely by ministers as a result of a growing legal challenge to the controversial move.
THE VINTNERS’ FEDERATION of Ireland has hit out at plans by Diageo to put up the price of a pint. A pint of Guinness as well as Budweiser and Carlsberg is expected to rise by about five cent.
Drunken youngsters who think nothing of drinking a box of bourbon and Coke in one night have sparked a rise in serious assaults, a Christchurch addiction expert says.
Baby boomers take up the lion’s share of NHS spending on alcohol abuse. The first ever map of alcohol-related health costs in England reveals that the 55-74 age band imposes a greater burden on the state than any other age group.
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EU claims plans to introduce a 50p per unit rate could infringe free trade rules
Georgia State University's Dominic Parrott and Christopher Eckhardt at Purdue University in Indiana have received a five-year, $2.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to examine the underlying factors behind alcohol intoxication and violence between significant others and spouses.
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