Insight & Opinion - The three-tier system of alcohol distribution in the United States is changing under our feet. With tasting rooms, bars, restaurants, and event venues either closed or severely limited during the COVID-19 crisis, the industry is seeing a massive “channel shift” to off-premise and ecommerce sales.
How safe are D.C.-area roads when it comes to issues related to drunken driving? Your answer may depend on which data you examine.
In 2018, roads regionwide saw 85 alcohol and/or drug-impaired traffic fatalities, which is a 1.16% percent decrease from the previous year.Savannah, G.A- A local non-profit is taking a positive approach to drug prevention. Beyond the Bell is launching its "Positive Community Norms" campaign to battle underage drug abuse.
Beyond The Bell is a non-profit that provides drug prevention initiatives in the City of Savannah, as well as Upson, DeKalb and Rockdale County.As part of Gov. Mike DeWine's plan for reopening Ohio businesses forced to close due to COVID-19, bars and restaurants were permitted to open their patios for dining beginning May 15 under strict social distancing requirements.
Every culture that has developed social drinking rituals has also developed its own drinking toasts. Americans toast to good spirits with a hearty “Cheers.” In Turkey, it’s commonplace to toast “to honor” by proclaiming “Şerefe.” But the emerging changes and new trends in the alcoholic beverage market are best characterized by the ancient Celts’ “Sláinte,” meaning “to health.”
As the UK and most other countries went into lockdown, the need to save lives from the coronavirus rightly took priority over longer term health issues. But experts writing in The BMJ today warn that "if we don't prepare for emerging from the pandemic, we will see the toll of increased alcohol harm for a generation."
CINCINNATI — New legislation aims to make the carryout and delivery of alcoholic beverages permanent in Ohio.
House Bill 669 aims to make a coronavirus-era provision permanent across the state.Most of South Africa may be moved to Level 3 of lockdown, which would allow for the easing of some restrictions and enable bottle stores to sell booze.
While the rest of the country lays out a staggered and staged return to normality, the Northern Territory is getting ready to celebrate its newfound status as “the safest place in Australia”. On Friday, the territory’s premier – albeit only – newspaper The NT Times heralded the Top End’s reopening of pubs as a “historic day”.
While many Americans continue to live under some measure of quarantine, people have been drinking more at home. With restaurants and bars unlikely to reopen soon (if at all), and a near-guarantee of a second wave of COVID-19 infections, it seems the living room bar is here to stay.