(As we understand it, the Liquor licensing is to eventually migrate to– Department of Justice, but under VGCCC in the interim) A quick synoptic overview of some of the changes to alcohol availability to your community – No prizes for guessing it is not more restrictive. The following Licence types have been granted extended trading […]
Alcohol is the most common principal drug of concern for people accessing treatment, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW’s) new report. a) Almost two in five (37%) treatment episodes for people accessing support for themselves were for alcohol, followed byb) amphetamines (24 %), c) cannabis (19 %) and d) heroin
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Highlights Heightened stress during the pandemic may lead to more college drinking. Cohorts of college students (N = 694) were surveyed before and during the pandemic. Stress was only linked to more alcohol use among those with low meaning in life. Meaning in one’s life protected against both general and COVID-specific stress. Alcohol interventions may be enhanced
The new findings suggest a rise in cardiovascular risk even at alcohol consumption levels deemed “low risk” by national guidelines. “The findings affirm that alcohol intake should not be recommended to improve cardiovascular health; rather, that reducing alcohol intake will likely reduce cardiovascular risk in all individuals, albeit to different extents based on one’s current
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Government Needs to Abandon Plans to Cut Price of Alcohol: Lower Taxes, less reparation revenue, as well as greater public health and community harms. (Open Letter to Federal Treasurer) Read Letter
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That children have to grow up in homes with parental alcohol problems is an invisible and silent crisis worldwide.* As their parents cannot provide shelter and often basic support, also society is failing to protect and promote the rights of these children. In the United States, more than 10% of children live with a parent
“That study further established that no level of alcohol consumption is safe.” February, 2022 A new large-scale genetic study tracking 150,000 Chinese participants for 11 years establishes that “alcohol directly causes cancer.” The study was published in end-January on the International Journal of Cancer. Researchers found that those who had two genetic variants that reduce alcohol
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For immediate release: JANUARY 21, 2022Media contact:Maik Dünnbier+46 721 555 036@maikduennbier Big Alcohol Attempts to Undermine WHO Global Action Plan Geneva, Switzerland, January 21, 2022 – Alcohol companies and their lobby groups are systematically working to undermine and water down global alcohol policies that would reduce the harms associated with their products, according to a new report.
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Since pouring their first drink less than three years ago an Australian non-alcoholic beverage company is set to be valued at $1bn this year as the world wakes up from its Covid-19 hangover and embraces healthier drinking alternatives. Serial entrepreneurs Carl Hartmann and Mark Livings have raised more than $63m to ensure the expansion of
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Marcia Langton, a leading Indigenous academic who has studied rates of child rape and prostitution in the far northeast of Western Australia, has backed moves by the state’s Police Commissioner to ban the sale of full-strength alcohol in the region. A confidential report by Professor Langton and colleagues from the University of Melbourne describes “the
