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.

In:tuition is an evidence based, life skills education programme for young people aged

An 18-year-old celebrating her birthday was rushed to hospital to have her stomach removed in an emergency operation after drinking a cocktail containing liquid nitrogen.

Children follow their mothers' drinking habits in adulthood – but the amount their father drinks makes no difference, a landmark study has found.

About a quarter of the people who die from injury deaths could still be alive if alcohol use was removed from the combination of factors that caused the injuries, a Wellington conference on injury prevention and safety promotion was told.

Excessive eating and drinking and a sedentary lifestyle are linked to breast cancer in Kiwi women, new research has found. Obesity, high alcohol intake and lack of physical exercise were found to be the highest risk factors for the disease, which is the most common cancer in New Zealand women, acco

The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA), supported by two European industry bodies, has petitioned the Court of Session seeking a judicial review of the Scottish Government’s minimum pricing legislation, which received royal assent in June and is expected to come in to force in April.

THE UK government will support the Scottish Government when its minimum alcohol pricing legislation is challenged in the courts, according to the Advocate General for Scotland.

EUROPEAN Commission queries plans to reduce alcohol prices over trade rule fears.