Costa Rica has been hit with a wave of methanol poisoning linked to adulterated alcohol, according to a report from Food Safety News.
In this research update, Kathryn Waldegrave, lecturer in community medicine at the University of Leeds, summarises the evidence for making the not-so-straightforward assessment of 'responsible' drinking in older adults.
A Scottish University has closed its Student Union bar because of a dwindling demand for alcohol from its students who increasingly prefer coffee to beer.
A Singapore-based company sanctioned last year by the U.S. Treasury was on Thursday charged with facilitating shipments of alcohol worth SGD600,000 ($432,384) to North Korea.
As the doorbell at Thomas H. Clarke's independent legal cannabis shop goes non-stop, its owner laments its looming closure.
A New South Wales suburb is battling to stop a second Woolworths attempt to build an alcohol superstore amid community problems with domestic violence, underage drinking and crime in what experts describe as a pattern of the supermarket giant targeting disadvantaged areas.
MANILA, Philippines — The House ways and means panel on Tuesday took less than an hour to approve a bill raising the “sin tax” on alcoholic products, a high-priority measure that the chamber passed in 2018 but was not enacted on time.
Licensed cannabis producers are being invited to participate in a call for new products that are due to be legalized later this year.
Data released recently by the World Health Organization shows that South African consumers of alcohol are some of the heaviest drinkers in the world, despite relatively high levels of abstinence in the population.
THE House of Representatives’ Committee on Ways and Means has approved and advanced to the plenary a measure seeking an increase in excise tax rates on alcohol products, part of the priority tax reforms under the Duterte administration.