Many Americans over 30 may remember high school as a period of drunken debauchery. It’s not really like that anymore. According to 2018 survey data released today (Dec. 17) by the National Institute of Health (NIH), only 13.8% of 12th graders reported binge drinking within the past two weeks.
An extra 1.1 million people are planning to give up drinking at the start of 2019 as part of Dry January, as charity Alcohol Change UK releases a book to help those considering abstaining next month.
It’s time to raise the alcohol tax. Yeah, yeah, this isn’t going to win me many friends at parties. But there’s a strong case this is something America should do.
The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) announced that ABC agents investigated 70 Type 75 Brew Pub Restaurants and discovered nearly 50 were not in compliance with their licenses, by either not brewing beer at all, not brewing quantities for service consumers expect of a legitimate brew pub, or were otherwise not functioning as a brew pub.
DALLAS, Dec. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- A Dallas jury has returned a $25 million wrongful death verdict against a Dallasnightclub and related parties, finding that the club served too much alcohol to a Dallas Cowboys player who later crashed his Mercedes, killing his friend and teammate Jerry Brown who was a passenger in the car in the 2012 accident.
We all like a drink, and there are few better ways of celebrating Christmas, New Year or virtually any other occasion than by raising a glass or two.
A handful of organizations have recently resorted to GoFundMe campaigns to generate donations for covering the cost of producing amicus briefs filed with the U.S. Supreme Court.
IRVING, TEXAS (PRWEB) DECEMBER 10, 2018 - Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) announces its new National President, Helen Witty, effective Jan. 1, 2019. Witty joined MADD in 2000 after her 16-year-old daughter, Helen Marie, was killed by a drunk and drugged driver while rollerblading on a designated bike path near the family’s home in Miami on a clear June afternoon.
Leaders in Salt Lake County, Utah, observed a troubling trend in one of its communities, the Kearns Metro Township: They found that local youth had higher rates of alcohol and nicotine use, gang involvement, and mental health symptoms as compared to the rest of the state.
ALEXANDRIA, VA. – The Independent Beer Distributors Relief Fund (IBDRF) announced it is joining California wildfire relief efforts with a $25,000 donation to the Sierra Nevada Brewery Relief Fund for Camp Fire.