AUSTRALIA - Diagnosing brain impairments caused by alcohol consumption during pregnancy remains a challenge in Australia, but new eye-tracking technology could help change that.
PISCATAWAY, NJ - Increasing taxes on alcohol is one of the most cost-effective methods of reducing the harms caused by alcohol consumption, according to research in the new issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
The fight against under-age drinking, foetal alcohol syndrome and the scourge of illegal traders in various communities across the Eastern Cape have led to the formation of an alcohol harm reduction programme launched in Buffalo City Metro on Tuesday.
The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) retail trade figures showed an overall increase in retail turnover of 0.4 per cent in June and a 0.2 per cent increase for liquor retailing, seasonally adjusted.
New UK distilleries ranged from whisky in Scotland to urban gin south of the border, said UHY Hacker Young, releasing new figures this week that suggest the craft spirits boom shows little sign of abating.
Scotch whisky has been successfully registered as a certification trademark in South Africa, its seventh largest market by volume.
THE SUMMER heatwave might be welcome among pub dwellers across the UK and Ireland, but it could be paving the way for a major hike for gin, beer, and whiskey prices.
A group of West Aucklanders have launched an online petition to challenge the alcohol monopoly that prevents local residents buying wine or beer at supermarkets.
With the amount of alcohol people can carry between provinces about to be raised, a convenience store owner in Labrador City says the amount of beer bought in Quebec and brought over the border is already hurting her bottom line.
Lowering the minimum sale price of bottled and canned beer was one of many campaign promises made by Ontario’s Doug Ford-led Progressive Conservative party.