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 need for age verification has led the first UK till-free supermarket to remove wines, beers and spirits from its shelves.
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.
Minimum unit pricing on alcohol should be raised to 60p to help tackle Scotland’s “problematic alcohol use”, the Liberal Democrats have said.
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.
While Atlantic Canada is a leader in impaired-driving regulations, it has lots of room to improve in other areas in order to reduce health and safety linked to alcohol consumption, according to new report cards co-authored by St. Francis Xavier University professor Kara Thompson.
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.
THERE is no part of Scottish society that is immune to the damage unchecked alcohol abuse can visit on individuals or families.
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.
BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada - This morning, the director of the UVic-based Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research said that there will be a significant change in alcohol pricing.