Minimum alcohol pricing? It can only be a positive move, particularly with the increasing problem of alcohol abuse among younger people...can't it?
Continue reading Would minimum alcohol pricing let in drugs trade?.
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It was a proposal that attracted the predictable response that it wouldn't work, it couldn't be enforced. But, slowly, more people are agreeing that a way will have to be found to introduce and police minimum pricing for alcohol.
Continue reading Call for minimum alcohol pricing gathers momentum.
Courtesy of a huge effort from teenage girls, the UK has found itself top of the international league in one respect: drunkenness.
Continue reading We're number one! (In drunkenness).
In the 1980s former Fleet Street editor Derek Jameson fronted a TV programme called Do They Mean Us?, in which clippings from foreign documentaries about the British way of life were screened.
Continue reading Setting the drunken scene for social services conference.
I have seldom been one for giving money to beggars. If I were a commuter at Tulse Hill station I would be even less inclined.
Continue reading Would you give money to a beggar? Think again.
It is such a shame that Sir Liam Donaldson's proposals to reduce the nation's alcohol intake have been dismissed so widely.
Continue reading Sir Liam Donaldson's alcohol plan is small price to pay.
Sir Liam Donaldson, the chief medical officer, was on Radio 4 this morning expressing his reasonable concerns about underage drinking.
Continue reading Childhood as an alcohol-free zone.
All hail the reduction in alcohol-related deaths. All hail - or should that be inhale? - the efforts to cut cannabis use.
Continue reading Drink statistics and drug policy addling my brain.
Was it as long ago as three-and-a-half years that the British Beer and Pub Association announced a ban on happy hours?
Continue reading Happy hours are not the problem.
Hospital admissions for serious conditions related to alcohol have doubled in the past 10 years but a report reveals that a quarter of primary care trusts have failed to fully assess misuse in their areas.
Continue reading PCTs must take alcohol misuse more seriously.
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