News that the number of liquor store robberies in Edmonton has tripled in the past year is getting attention from several groups.
The introduction of minimum unit pricing (MUP) in Scotland appears to have been successful in reducing the amount of alcohol purchased and, by inference, consumption by households, finds a study published by The BMJ today.
Universities UK (UUK), which represents vice-chancellors, has launched the new advice for institutions in collaboration with Newcastle University following the death of first-year student Ed Farmer after an initiation involving heavy drinking in 2016.
United Kingdom - Glasgow Caledonian University is to lead a study looking at the impact of alcohol minimum pricing on the homeless.
Newfoundland & Labrador - When you hear that a farmer is feeding craft beer grain to his cows, one obvious question comes to mind: do the cows get drunk?
SCOTLAND - A new report published today – compiled with the help of nine members of the Children’s Parliament – used workshops with 90 primary school pupils between the ages of nine and 11.
OTTAWA, Sept. 19, 2019 /CNW/ - Last year, over 23,500 youth (age 10 to 24) were hospitalizedi for harm caused by substance use — the equivalent of 65 hospitalizations each day.
AUSTRALIA - You reach for the bottle at your Saturday night get-together only to up-end it in your guests' wine glass —you're out of grog.
FINLAND - Preliminary findings by market research firm Taloustutkimus revealed that alcohol sales in Finnish grocery stores fell between January and August this year.
Korean imports of Japanese traditional alcoholic drink Sake fell to their lowest in 11 years while Japanese names were pushed out of top 10 bestsellers in the imported beer market last month amid anti-Japanese sentiment from soured ties over past and trade issues.