Alcohol and other drug overdoses are a significant public health problem and a common cause of death among young adults. This study assessed whether alcohol use at age 15–16 years is a risk factor for alcohol or drug overdose, or poisoning requiring medical attention, by the age of 32–33 in a population-based Finnish cohort study
The self-regulatory alcohol advertising system in Australia, ABAC, conducted a review of their code and processes last year, which report is about to be released. Several health and community groups publicly declined to participate in the review. But more, they released the following statement in relation to the clearly industry subjective, and no doubt, self-affirming
Alcohol Beverages Advertising Code Scheme (ABAC) – Foxes In Charge of the Hen House? Read More »
Australia leads the world in research relating to online alcohol purchasing. Bottle Shop in your hand – with much less scrutiny. Endeavour & Coles account 60% of online sales – Endeavour Group accounts for 50% of sales grossing 1 Billion Dollars in sales. Coles 12% Both groups have experienced significant growth of online sales. WA
Online Sales & Delivery of Alcohol – A Serious Risk Factor That Needs Addressing Read More »
Many hospitalisations and deaths involve injury where the person injured had consumed alcohol, referred to here as “alcohol-related” injury. This report presents data from 2019–20 on 30,000 hospitalisations and almost 1,950 deaths from alcohol-related injury. For both males and females, falls, intentional self-harm and assault were the leading causes of hospitalisation. Among all hospitalisations for
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by CAA | Mar 18, 2023 Drunkenness has been a community issue since time immemorial, and there is no empirical data to show it is any worse or otherwise than it has been for many decades, relative to the size of the population.Decriminalising public drunkenness is fixing a problem that does not exist to any significant degree. As
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In their latest policy brief, the World Heart Foundation (WHF) establishes the evidence base that no amount of alcohol is good for the heart.The latest scientific evidence shows that any amount of alcohol use, even low-doses, can harm cardiovascular health. The policy brief by WHF calls for urgent and decisive action to tackle the unprecedented
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A winning combination, if one of your goals for alcohol use is to induce cancer – But and utter disaster if your design is to minimise cancer risk.You’d think this now unassailably confirmed health harm reality would be getting major media attention and robust government enabled public health action, yet we have seen thus far,
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“No studies have shown that the potential existence of a protective effect for cardiovascular diseases or type 2 diabetes also reduces the risk of cancer for an individual consumer. Evidence does not indicate the existence of a particular threshold at which the carcinogenic effects of alcohol start to manifest in the human body. As such,
WHO: No Level of Alcohol Use Is Safe for our Health Read More »
Health authorities in Canada have released new guidelines on alcohol consumption, recommending one to two standard drinks per week as “low risk”. What do Australia’s guidelines say?Australia’s guidelines to reduce the risks associated with drinking alcohol were revised in December 2020. They recommend healthy men and women should drink no more than 10 standard drinks
No More Than Two Standard Drinks a Week – A Better Health Recommendation. Read More »
Well, the Canadians have ‘stepped up’ in the now well-established Alcohol and Cancer correlation and causation. The cancer connection with alcohol had been ‘lurking’ for many years, but in the last four or so years, it has been undeniably established. Canada is just the most recent place that the bold declarations have been made in
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