A rural police force has taken the unusual step of using volunteer actors to pretend they are drunk in order to test whether local pubs and clubs will sell them alcohol.
Alberta’s new laws on impaired driving come into effect April 9 and include higher penalties for drivers found to be impaired by either alcohol or drugs.
A new study indicates that patients with alcohol-related liver cancer often do not live as long as patients with liver cancer that is not associated with alcohol consumption, mainly due to diagnoses at later stages.
A group of MPs have proposed abolishing the current ban on home brewing of alcohol, RÚV reports. Home brewing is currently illegal in Iceland, but a bill proposing its legalisation has been reintroduced in parliament.
As incidents of drunk driving get steadily worse in South Africa, there is hope that the new motorist demerit system which is on its way will help convince people to kick the habit – but more needs to be done, socially, to make perpetrators feel bad about doing it in the first place.
NAKURU, KENYA: Manufacturers of alcoholic drinks want the national government to do more in weeding out counterfeit products.
Scotland's poorest people suffer most from having easy access to alcohol in their area, a new study has suggested.
One of Australia’s biggest retailers has threatened to shelve $85 million of investment in new liquor stores in WA if the State Government’s alcohol reforms are introduced.
The subject of alcohol and cancer risk is particularly charged, because of the fear that the disease still evokes and the strong emotions it arouses.
The Department of Health and Social Care has opened up a public consultation on the descriptors used to refer to low alcohol products so that people can make “informed choices” following the recent growth of the sector.