Abandoning Minimum Alcohol Prices Puts Lives At Risk, Say Leading Doctors
Lives will be lost as a result of the Government’s decision today to abandon the introduction of minimum unit pricing for alcohol, according to doctors’ leaders. The Alcohol Health Alliance, a body...
View ArticleChurches condemn u-turn on alcohol pricing
The Government has broken its pledge to introduce a minimum unit price for alcohol. The Church of England, the Methodist Church, the United Reformed Church, the Salvation Army and Quaker Action on...
View ArticleJean Gives Hope to Other Alcoholics
According to their current online fact file, Alcoholics Anonymous estimates approximately 2,057,672 members are striving for sobriety worldwide. Jean was one of those members. In her new memoir,...
View ArticleYoung Brits warned about dangers of cheap alcohol abroad
Young Brits are putting themselves at risk of harm because of cheap alcohol and the results of peer pressure while on holiday. Foreign Office research shows that 51% of 16 to 24-year-olds say they are...
View ArticleOver a third of children have seen pictures of their friends drunk online
Parents urged to talk to their children about alcohol in pre-teen years Research from Drinkaware reveals the level of young people’s exposure to images of drunken friends on social media. Nearly four...
View ArticleHaringey Advisory Group on Alcohol in Seven Sisters Road holds fete
Children, members of the public and recovering addicts ate cake and played splat the rat at a vintage fete. Haringey Advisory Group on Alcohol (HAGA) in Seven Sisters Road threw open its doors to the...
View ArticleLaunch of draft standards and survey on drug and alcohol education
Drug and alcohol education standards The intention is to provide practical tools that schools and others can use to assess their drug and alcohol education and prevention The ADEPIS service (Alcohol...
View ArticleAlcohol treatment services ‘performing well’
Public Health England has released the latest statistics for alcohol treatment activity in England 2012-13 Services to treat people with alcohol dependence in England are ‘performing well’, according...
View ArticleGabapentin ‘could help treat alcohol dependence’
Gabapentin could be used to treat people for alcohol dependence, US researchers have claimed. Compared with placebo, they found gabapentin enabled more people with alcohol dependence to completely...
View ArticleGene mutation can cause excessive alcohol drinking
UK researchers have discovered a gene that regulates alcohol consumption and, when faulty, can cause excessive drinking in mice. The study found that normal mice drink little or no alcohol when offered...
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