Monitoring Alcohol

SBS 27/2/18 Nearly 6000 Australians are dying from alcohol-related diseases each year. (AAP) Nearly 6000 Australians died as a result of a disease linked to alcohol in 2015, the National Drug Research Institute has found. Alcohol-related diseases are being blamed for causing the deaths of nearly 6000 Australians each year. A study by the National

Researchers suggest screening, brief interventions for heavy drinking and treatment for alcohol use disorders are needed to reduce the alcohol-attributable burden of dementia. by Jill Margo 21/2/2018 If you are drinking your troubles away, you soon may not be able to remember them at all. A nationwide French study has just shown chronic heavy drinking is an especially

The middle-class trend of “wine o’clock” is increasing the rate of heart problems, liver disease and even alcohol-induced dementia. And doctors warn people who enjoy a “few glasses” of wine at home each evening could be suffering from a form of chronic alcoholism. While most responsible drinking advertising targets young people, there is also a growing

Parents who give their children alcohol increase the risk that they will binge drink in their teenage years, an Australian study has found. There is no evidence to support the view that parents who give their children alcohol are reducing the risk of binge drinking or alcohol-related harms in their teenage years, found the study

Today’s teenagers are turning their backs on Australia’s excessive drinking culture, and shunning other drugs, in a change that has been dubbed a modern “youth revolution”. A study involving more than 41,000 Australian adolescents (average age 13.5) has observed a staggering drop in rates of teen alcohol consumption and smoking since 1999 At the turn of

This Blue Monday new Drinkaware research shows that a large proportion of people who drink alcohol do so to forget their problems, cheer themselves up when in a bad mood and because it helps when they feel depressed or nervous.  New research reveals that almost three in five (58%) of all people (aged 18-75) who

The harms associated with alcohol are equivalent to, or greater than, those for illicit drugs. Examples of these harms include: Contributing (second only to tobacco) to Australia’s burden of disease—with alcohol use being linked as a risk factor/contributor to more than 200 chronic diseases (including seven types of cancer);3 Acting as one of Australia’s leading

Acetaldehyde and blood stem cells Even light drinkers at risk of cancer. A recent statement from the American Society of Clinical Oncology outlines the dangers of alcohol. Following the analysis, the researchers found that acetaldehyde could, in fact, damage and break DNA within blood stem cells. Chromosomes became rearranged, and the DNA sequence was permanently

Fair Work Commission upheld the decision and backed the oil and gas industry’s zero-tolerance alcohol strategy… Despite the incident occurring outside work hours, Commissioner David Gregory said the decision was “reasonable”…“It is obviously designed to protect the individual and to prevent them endangering others.” For more  

December 20, 2017   A GROUP of south east Melbourne councils, including Kingston Council, wants family violence and “alcohol-related harm” taken into account when considering applications for new liquor stores. Members of the South-East Melbourne Council Group – Mornington Peninsula, Frankston, Kingston, Casey, Cardinia, Greater Dandenong – have been joined by Maroondah and Knox in seeking