Monitoring Alcohol

Drinking alcohol during or after a shift has long been common practice among hospitality workers, especially male hospitality workers. However, attitudes toward alcohol are starting to change. As part of VicHealth’s Men’s Risky Drinking Initiative, “Hospo drinking cultures” seeks to amplify these changes through a series of short animated documentaries. The animated documentaries feature personal

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

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

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      

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

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.