Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder is substantially more prevalent for people in five vulnerable groups including children in care, Indigenous populations and people in prison, according to a global study by Canadian researchers.
Manitoba appears to be opening the door for more private liquor sales. New marching orders for the province's Crown corporations include the request that Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries find additional ways the private sector can be involved in the sale of liquor.
The need for age verification has led the first UK till-free supermarket to remove wines, beers and spirits from its shelves.
Alcohol consumption in France has stopped falling for the first time since the end of the Second World War, said the country’s Académie Nationale de Médicine this week.
NAIROBI, April 30 (Xinhua) -- Kenya will intensify crackdown on counterfeit and substandard alcoholic beverages whose rampant consumption among low income groups has created a public health crisis, officials said on Tuesday.
The district of Gadchiroli has 1.2 million people, spread across 1,500 villages and three towns. A district sample survey we carried out in the years 2015 and 2016 showed that 41% of men had consumed alcohol in the past 12 months, spending a total of Rs 80 crore.
THERE is no part of Scottish society that is immune to the damage unchecked alcohol abuse can visit on individuals or families.
Ireland is driving pregnant women to drink, a new study has claimed. Foreigners living here for more than a decade are three times more likely to consume alcohol than non-Irish women who have been here for less than five years.
TORONTO — A group of researchers is sounding the alarm over the Ontario government's planned changes to alcohol policy, saying the relaxed rules will lead to more consumption that can bring an increase in crime, hospitalizations and even death.
Time to crack open a cold one? Not so fast -- a local Mexican lawmaker proposed a measure Thursday limiting the sale of cold beer to curb alcohol consumption, unbottling a wave of mainly mocking reactions online.