In light of the great number of accidents had by younger, less experienced drivers, half of motorists in the UK have embraced a notion put forward by the Association of British Insurers (ABI) that would see a zero limit for tolerance of young drivers a

The alcohol industry is increasingly targeting people aged over 60 as global populations age, a public health researcher has told a conference today. Massey University social scientist Sally Casswell told an audience in Wellington that companies were paying more attention to retirement-age drinkers

Children are being groomed by alcohol companies years before they reach the legal drinking age, through advertising on Facebook, researchers say. The social media website has also become so entrenched in young people's drinking culture that they can no longer distinguish advertising, Massey Univers

Donna Ribton-Turner, Director of Clinical Services at UnitingCare ReGen argues that we need a more complex approach to supporting families dealing with alcohol and drug problems.

‘Binge drinking doubles heart risk,’ BBC News reported today. This study was in almost 10,000 men aged 50 to 59 without heart disease from France and Northern Ireland.

A MOTHER from York who left her two young children home alone while she went out drinking has been given a two-year community order and warned she “must never do it again”.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt MP announced his plan to reduce the number of deaths occurring from alcohol misuse in parliament today. The new report, titled 'Living Well for Longer', aims to tackle the problems highlighted in the rec

Experts have warned that “as many as a quarter of a million people will die from alcohol abuse over the next two decades unless the government takes the problem as seriously as it did smoking,” reported The Daily Telegraph.

The European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) has published the first comprehensive Literature Review on the Burden of Liver Disease in Europe Key findings suggest that alcohol…