A college student getting hammered on a Friday night isn't exactly breaking news—but a survey suggests that it's happening at Duke more than other schools.
The survey, conducted by the American College Health Association in Fall 2016, found that 72.2 percent of Duke undergraduates had consumed alcohol within the past month, almost 10 percent higher than the national average.
At Killingtons Restaurant and Pub in Huntersville, they've adjusted their hours since the "brunch bill" that allows Sunday morning alcohol sales passed.
At Block Bistro, they're seeing an additional, earlier brunch rush at 10 a.m. Sundays.
The UK's highest court has begun hearing the latest appeal against minimum pricing for alcohol.
The Scotch Whisky Association's case against the measure is being assessed by the Supreme Court in London.
The policy was approved by MSPs at Holyrood in 2012, but has been tied up in a succession of court challenges amid claims it breaches European law.
Two days does not a trend make, but to Christopher Arnold what happened in the first two days Minnesota liquor stores could be open on Sundays looks familiar.
It basically follows what happened in Colorado," said Arnold, manager at Bagley's city-owned liquor store.
"Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency is reporting that alcohol poisoning has killed three and left more than 40 people hospitalized in southern Iran.
What is a unit?
An alcohol unit is defined as 10ml or 8g of pure alcohol. As alcoholic drinks come in various strengths and sizes, units are the only accurate way to measure how relatively strong a drink is and how it affects buyers.
According to the Drinkaware website, "it takes an average adult around an hour to process one unit of alcohol so that there's none left in their bloodstream, although it varies from person to person."
Foreign beer and wine consumption is increasing significantly in China. In 2016, Chinese consumed 567.5 million liters of imported wine, with bottled wine leading the total imports, followed by bulk wines and sparkling wines, according to statistics from the China Association for Imports and Exports of Wine and Spirits. During the same period, beer imports grew by 18.7 percent in volume to 598.5 million liters.
The Alcohol Health Alliance who carried out the research found that products across the market are falling well below the 50p per unit mark recommended by health and alcohol bodies.
With more than half a million people living within a five-mile radius, the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) store in Alexandria Commons Shopping Center has seen quite a bit of traffic since it opened in 2001. It's time for a few improvements.
MOSCOW, July 20. /TASS/. Alcohol consumption and alcohol-related deaths in Russia continue to demonstrate downwards tendencies, the press service of the Russian ministry of health told TASS on Thursday.