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- Alcohol Can Harm Those Not Drinking https://www.forbes.com/sites/omerawan/2024/08/18/how-alcohol-can-harm-those-not-drinking/ 2 comments
- Alcohol pricing: Mulled whines -- People are drinking less but doing so more harmfully. Policymakers want higher prices—causing a headache for the booze industry http://www.economist.com/news/international/21591878-people-are-drinking-less-doing-so-more-harmfully-policymakers-want-higher 6 comments worldevents
- Harmful alcohol drinking expected to increase worldwide: Between 1990 and 2017, per capita adult consumption increased by nearly 0.7 litres a year https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/alcohol-global-1.5127033 12 comments worldnews
- Alcoholic products are harming 10 million Australians each year. People negatively affected by the drinking of someone they knew reported harms ranging from being emotionally neglected , to having a serious argument, being threatened, forced into sexual activity or otherwise physically hurt. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.16205 36 comments science
- Drink 'More Harmful Than Drugs' -- Alcohol is ranked almost as harmful as heroin in a controversial new drug classification system proposed by a team of leading scientists http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6502012,00.html 111 comments science
- One in ten patients in NHS hospitals is alcohol dependent, Kings College study finds: The study of more than 1.6 million admissions found that one in five people admitted for any reason was drinking at harmful levels. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/07/03/one-ten-patients-nhs-hospitals-alcohol-dependent-kings-college/ 19 comments worldnews
- Providing alcohol to adolescent children is associated with alcohol-related harms. There is no evidence to support the view that parental supply protects from adverse drinking outcomes by providing alcohol to their teenaged child. Parents should be advised that this practice is associated with risk. http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/piis2468-2667(17)30240-2/fulltext?elsca1=tlpr 19 comments science
- "Australian director of the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, says marijuana should be legalised under strict controls because the social harm associated with it was significantly less than from drinking." http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health-fitness/expert-calls-for-marijuana-to-be-legalised-to-reduce-harm-of-binge-drinking-in-teens/story-fneuzlbd-1226676714223 128 comments worldnews
- When alcohol bottles come with conspicuous labels providing information on the risks of alcohol consumption or drinking guidelines, people are better informed about alcohol's harms and may cut down their drinking, according to a series of studies https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-05/joso-loa042320.php 23 comments science
- Activist group finds drinking 140 glasses of wine a day could expose alcoholics to potentially harmful levels of the herbicide glyphosate | Genetic Literacy Project https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2019/02/26/activist-group-finds-drinking-140-glasses-of-wine-a-day-could-expose-alcoholics-to-potentially-harmful-levels-of-the-herbicide-glyphosate/ 21 comments nottheonion
- Most Irish drink harmfully and more than anyone else in Europe - Most Irish people drink in a harmful manner and our per capita consumption of alcohol is among the highest in Europe, a new report from the HRB reveals today. http://www.independent.ie/health/latest-news/most-irish-drink-harmfully-and-more-than-anyone-else-in-europe-2819103.html 81 comments worldnews
- Alcohol causes significant harm to those other than the drinker, according to a new study (n=8,750), which found that each year, one in five U.S. adults (an estimated 53 million people) experience harm because of someone else's drinking. Society may need to combat the secondhand effects of drinking. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-07/joso-acs062619.php 2236 comments science
- Study reveals that the monetary costs from alcohol's harms are mostly paid by those who don’t drink excessively or at all. The findings suggest alcohol companies should be taxed more to pay for the harms, given that most of their large profit margins come from sales to excessive drinkers. https://www.jsad.com/doi/10.15288/jsad.2019.80.408 342 comments science
- Labels on alcohol bottles increase awareness of drinking harms. When alcohol bottles come with conspicuous labels providing information on the risks of alcohol consumption or drinking guidelines, people are better informed about alcohol’s harms and may cut down their drinking, study finds. https://www.jsad.com/page/news/mar2020 6 comments science
- Simultaneous alcohol, cannabis use may fuel more drinking - new study found that people may perceive fewer negative effects of alcohol if they are also using cannabis at the same time, potentially leading to alcohol use disorder, alcohol-related harms and drunk driving. https://medicine.missouri.edu/news/simultaneous-alcohol-cannabis-use-may-fuel-more-drinking 3 comments science
- One in four deaths of young men aged from 15 to 39 in Ireland is due to alcohol and drink is a factor in half of all suicides.Alcohol is also involved in more than one third of cases of deliberate self-harm, peaking around weekends and public holidays. http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/25-of-males-age-15-39-die-due-to-alcohol-404928.html? 181 comments worldnews