Drinking a glass of wine every day may be good for mental health, report The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian. From NHS Choices The story is based on a Spanish…
The UK is the "addiction capital of Europe", with some of its highest rates of opiate addiction and dependence on alcohol, a major new report warns. From RTE.ie Alcohol and…
ALCOHOL companies are using Twitter to plug their products to a young and potentially underage audience, prompting calls for greater regulation of social media. From the Herald Sun The power…
Labour's Junior Minister for Health, Alex White, is in the process of finalising new legislation to overhaul how alcohol is controlled in Ireland. As of yet there's no agreement on…
Irish people last year spent € .6.3 billion on alcohol, as an increasing number drank at home and fewer consumed their beer, wine or spirits in public houses. Alcohol consumption…
The toll of mental illness and substance abuse by age From The Economist THEY account for a relatively small share of the world's premature deaths -- but they are the…
Cork-distilled Jameson whiskey has been one of the most successful brands ever taken over by Pernod Ricard, becoming the second largest brand in the drinks company's cabinet. From the Irish…
Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Alcohol Policy Group will hold their first public meeting of the 2013/2014 series, “Join the National Conversation on Alcohol; Who's calling the shots?", on…
Here's a sobering fact for millions of young women heading back to school: The more alcohol they drink before motherhood, the greater their risk of future breast cancer. From MedicalXpress…
Patron tequila, Hennessy cognac, Grey Goose vodka, and Jack Daniel's whiskey””accounted for more than half of alcohol brand mentions in the songs that mentioned alcohol use in Billboard's most popular…