To understand more about the link between addiction and genes, science correspondent Miles O'Brien drinks a mixture of 30 grams of pure ethanol and Diet Coke, the equivalent of three stiff drinks, and undergoes a series of tests. > > > > Read More
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Avoiding Addiction When It's in Your DNA
To understand more about the link between addiction and genes, science correspondent Miles O'Brien drinks a mixture of 30 grams of pure ethanol and Diet Coke, the equivalent of three stiff drinks, and undergoes a series of tests. > > > > Read More
European Research Council PhD Studentships
University College London -Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
Ref: 1297732
Duration of Studentship 3 years
Stipend £18,746 per annum plus UK/EU fees of £4,200 per year
Vacancy Information Applications are invited for two fully-funded three-year PhD studentships for suitably qualified students to conduct research into the health consequences of alcohol consumption across the life-course using data from existing longitudinal observational cohort studies.
The epidemiology of alcohol use and alcohol-related consequences plays a vital role by monitoring populations’ alcohol consumption patterns and acute and chronic problems associated with drinking. Such studies aid efforts to explain relationships between these variables by investigating mechanisms linking alcohol consumption to harm and ultimately to reduce the health burden associated with drinking. Research on the health impact of alcohol consumption needs to take consideration of changes in drinking behaviour over the life-course. The current evidence base lacks the consideration of the complexity of lifetime consumption patterns, the major predictors of change in drinking and the subsequent health risks.
The scope of the research to be undertaken is broad, and thus there is flexibility to adapt the PhD project to the skills, experience, and interests of the successful candidates. > > > > Read More
Duration of Studentship 3 years
Stipend £18,746 per annum plus UK/EU fees of £4,200 per year
Vacancy Information Applications are invited for two fully-funded three-year PhD studentships for suitably qualified students to conduct research into the health consequences of alcohol consumption across the life-course using data from existing longitudinal observational cohort studies.
The epidemiology of alcohol use and alcohol-related consequences plays a vital role by monitoring populations’ alcohol consumption patterns and acute and chronic problems associated with drinking. Such studies aid efforts to explain relationships between these variables by investigating mechanisms linking alcohol consumption to harm and ultimately to reduce the health burden associated with drinking. Research on the health impact of alcohol consumption needs to take consideration of changes in drinking behaviour over the life-course. The current evidence base lacks the consideration of the complexity of lifetime consumption patterns, the major predictors of change in drinking and the subsequent health risks.
The scope of the research to be undertaken is broad, and thus there is flexibility to adapt the PhD project to the skills, experience, and interests of the successful candidates. > > > > Read More
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Press Release - Global Beer, Wine and Spirits CEOs Back New Initiatives
Building on their longstanding commitment to public health, the world’s leading producers of beer, wine and spirits have agreed to a new series of actions in five key areas that are designed to strengthen and expand existing efforts to reduce the harmful use of alcohol. Ten targeted actions over the next five years include:
Reducing underage drinking, via enforcement of current laws and encouraging governments to introduce and enforce minimum purchase ages
Continuing to strengthen and expand marketing codes of practice that are rooted in our resolve not to engage in marketing that could encourage excessive and irresponsible consumption, with a particular focus on digital marketing
Making responsible product innovations and developing easily understood symbols or equivalent words to discourage drinking and driving and consumption by pregnant women and underage youth
Reducing drinking and driving by collaborating with governments and non-governmental organizations to educate and enforce existing laws
Enlisting the support of retailers to reduce harmful drinking and create ‘guiding principles of responsible beverage alcohol retailing’
> > > > Read More
Monday, December 10, 2012
Neural Evidence for Emotional Involvement in Pathological Alcohol Craving
Reducing craving is a key to success in the treatment of alcohol dependence. The emotion circuit may be involved in pathological craving for alcohol. In this study, we investigated neural correlates of emotional involvement in craving in alcohol dependence.
The study included 17 detoxified alcoholic patients and 25 social drinkers. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine brain activation (blood oxygen level-dependent signals) while participants reported craving and emotion in response to visually presented, alcohol-related stimuli and emotional stimuli.
In the craving-rating paradigm, negative emotional stimuli as well as alcohol cues activated craving-related brain regions in alcoholic patients. Activations of the inferior parietal lobule and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex by negative emotional stimuli were negatively correlated with craving; meanwhile limbic activation was positively correlated with craving. For the emotion paradigm, greater limbic activation was evident by alcohol-related stimuli in the alcohol-dependent group.
Our findings constitute neural evidence for emotional involvement in pathological craving for alcohol, underscoring the importance of emotion management in abstinent alcoholic patients for relapse prevention.
The study included 17 detoxified alcoholic patients and 25 social drinkers. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine brain activation (blood oxygen level-dependent signals) while participants reported craving and emotion in response to visually presented, alcohol-related stimuli and emotional stimuli.
In the craving-rating paradigm, negative emotional stimuli as well as alcohol cues activated craving-related brain regions in alcoholic patients. Activations of the inferior parietal lobule and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex by negative emotional stimuli were negatively correlated with craving; meanwhile limbic activation was positively correlated with craving. For the emotion paradigm, greater limbic activation was evident by alcohol-related stimuli in the alcohol-dependent group.
Our findings constitute neural evidence for emotional involvement in pathological craving for alcohol, underscoring the importance of emotion management in abstinent alcoholic patients for relapse prevention.
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Drinking Patterns and Their Predictive Factors in CONTROL: a 12-Month Prospective Study in a Sample of Alcohol-Dependent Patients Initiating Treatment
CONTROL is a single-center, prospective, observational study evaluating consecutive alcohol-dependent patients. Using a curve clustering methodology based on a polynomial regression mixture model, we identified three clusters of patients with dominant alcohol use patterns described as mostly abstainers, mostly moderate drinkers and mostly heavy drinkers. Multinomial logistic regression analysis was used to identify baseline factors (socio-demographic, alcohol dependence consequences and related factors) predictive of belonging to each drinking cluster.
The sample included 143 alcohol-dependent adults (63.6% males), mean age 44.6 ± 11.8 years. The clustering method identified 47 (32.9%) mostly abstainers, 56 (39.2%) mostly moderate drinkers and 40 (28.0%) mostly heavy drinkers. Multivariate analyses indicated that mild or severe depression at baseline predicted belonging to the mostly moderate drinkers cluster during follow-up (relative risk ratio (RRR) 2.42, CI [1.02–5.73, P = 0.045] P = 0.045), while living alone (RRR 2.78, CI [1.03–7.50], P = 0.044) and reporting more alcohol-related consequences (RRR 1.03, CI [1.01–1.05], P = 0.004) predicted belonging to the mostly heavy drinkers cluster during follow-up.
In this sample, the drinking patterns of alcohol-dependent patients were predicted by baseline factors, i.e. depression, living alone or alcohol-related consequences and findings that may inform clinicians about the likely drinking patterns of their alcohol-dependent patient over the year following the initial evaluation for alcohol treatment.
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FASD News - 50/2012
NEWS and
ARTICLES
HealthCanal.com (Australia) -
Population-based study provides new alcohol and pregnancy data
From the findings of the first-ever
population-based study of its kind in Australia, a Curtin University researcher
has released a report highlighting the impact of maternal alcohol consumption on
the health and development of children.
Herald Sun (Australia) - Hospitals under fire
from medical chief for offering alcohol to pregnant women
HOSPITALS are offering pregnant mums wine and
beer - despite doctors' alarm over the number of "booze babies" born with brain
damage.
SBS (Australia) - MPs want fetal alcohol
warning on drinks
All alcoholic drinks should carry a health
warning for pregnant women, a parliamentary committee says.
Stuff.co.nz (New Zealand) - Booze risks for
unborn spur mum into action
A mother of a disabled son is pleading for
warning labels to be slapped on alcohol to prevent hundreds of children being
born brain-damaged every year.
ABC Online (Australia) - Inquiry to report on
fetal alcohol problem
Australia's love of alcohol is well documented -
even celebrated. Less publicised are the consequences of pregnant women who
drink and damage their unborn babies.
Lethbridge Herald (Canada) - Reaching out to
FASD victims
As a former young offenders centre employee and
group home worker, Brent Lorenz learned to work with struggling kids before they
got wrapped up in a life of crime. Now a constable with the Lethbridge regional
police, he's the only police officer in the world who deals specifically with
youth who have fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD).
Canada First Perspective (Canada) - Society
'will feel impact' of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
A First Nations leader said fetal alcohol
spectrum disorder — also known as FASD — is an "alarming" problem amongst
Canada's Aboriginal population.
AllAfrica.com (South Africa) - South Africa:
Foetal Alcohol Syndrome Campaign in Carnavon
Alcohol is killing the moral fibre of our
society, and it has now reached a point where unborn babies are disabled for
life due to the fact that mothers are consuming alcohol during pregnancy. This
phenomena has rocked the rural town of De Aar, to point where it is now the town
with the highest reported incidences of Foetal Alcohol Syndrome.
UPCOMING
EVENTS
First International Conference on Prevention
of FASD
Call for Abstracts Now Open
Provincial Outreach Program - Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and the Justice System (webinar)
This webcast will share knowledge and
information about FASD and the justice system by:
· briefly exploring what Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorder (FASD) is;
· presenting on a program designed and
implemented by the Asante Centre for youth involved in the justice system with
FASD (including findings and statistics);
· sharing research findings focusing on
substance abuse (drug and alcohol
programs for youth with FASD) being lead by the Asante Centre;
and
· describing Manitoba’s Youth Justice FASD
program for youth
involved the criminal
justice system (including challenges and recommendations)
SFU - Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
Conferences
This conference is a 3-day juried hearing of
evidence and scientific findings that allows for the engagement and
collaboration of citizens, decision makers in government, and the justice system
in addressing a specific set of key questions on legal issues of FASD.
MATERIALS
and VIDEOS
Best Start - Breastfeeding and Alcohol Use:
Parent Knowledge and Behaviours in Ontario, 2011
The Best Start Resource Centre would like to
thank Leger Marketing for completing this Ontario parent survey about
breastfeeding and alcohol use, providing the data analysis and identifying
preliminary trends.
NOFAS - Tania Peterman on living with
FASD
The National Organization on Fetal Alcohol
Syndrome (NOFAS) is the leading voice and resource of the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorders (FASD) community. Founded in 1990, NOFAS is the only international
non-profit organization committed solely to FASD primary prevention, advocacy
and support.
CAPHC - Beyond Screening - Understanding the
Core Deficits and Diagnosis of FASD
This webinar is an extension of our webinar
series on screening tools for FASD.
IN OTHER
LANGUAGES
Rodinka (Slovakia) - Čo by ste povedali
tehotnej, ktorá pije alkohol?
Takouto jednoduchou otázkou začínala konferencia
Návratu, venovaná FAS-cinujúcim deťom. Tak si skúste sami pred sebou v duchu
odpovedať.
Delfi (Estonia) - Karskusliit: kinkige oma
veel sündimata lapsele alkoholivaba 9 kuud
Alkoholi tarvitamine raseduse ajal põhjustab
erinevaid kahjustusi vähemalt 1%-le Euroopa Liidu elanikest, mõjutades seega
umbes 5 miljonit inimest. Tegemist on seega Euroopa Liidus sünnidefektide ja
arenguhäirete juhtiva põhjusega, mis on samas 100% ennetatav.
Sunday, December 9, 2012
PROSPECTIVE CORRELATES OF DRINKING CESSATION: VARIATION ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE
To assess age variation in correlates of drinking cessation.
Prospective study of a U.S. general population sample.
Face-to-face household interviews.
Past-year ≥monthly drinkers interviewed at baseline and 3-year follow-up (n=14,885).
Baseline values and selected changes over follow-up in alcohol consumption, alcohol use disorder (AUD), sociodemographic and health characteristics, other substance use and psychiatric comorbidity were used to predict drinking cessation in three age groups
Correlates of drinking cessation varied over the life course, with pregnancy/presence of an infant, nicotine or drug use disorder, incident AUD, cluster A personality disorder, liver disease and incident retirement being important at younger ages and high-school graduation, family income ≥$70,000, volume of ethanol intake, Asian race/ethnicity, mood disorder and incident cardiovascular disease being significant at older ages. Age-invariant correlates included smoking cessation over follow-up, OR=2.82 (95% CI=1.62-4.92) to 3.45 (2.20-5.39); college education, OR=0.42 (0.27-0.65) to 0.54 (0.36-0.83); Black and Hispanic race/ethnicity, OR = 1.74 (1.18-2.29) to 1.88 (1.21-2.93) and 1.58 (1.11-1.25) to 1.73 (0.83-3.63), respectively, and months since last drink, OR=1.24 (1.13-1.36) to1.29 (1.19-1.39).
Factors associated with ceasing alcohol use in US adults appear to differ over the life course, reflecting age variation in both their prevalence and impact and supporting the importance of role transitions and health problems (the “sick quitter” effect). The most consistent correlates of drinking cessation included factors reflecting ability/inability to give up potentially addictive substances and factors associated with perceived acceptability of drinking and subgroup-specific drinking contexts that might facilitate/impede continued drinking.
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Saturday, December 8, 2012
A public seminar with special relevance for policy makers and researchers
from the spheres of health, crime prevention and finance
Sponsored by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), the Centre for Addictions Research of BC (CARBC) and the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA)
The seminar will provide an overview of latest results from an international research team investigating the impact of alcohol pricing policies on public health and economic outcomes, including:
the burden of disease attributable to alcohol in Canada
public opinion on alcohol policies
new provincial case studies linking price changes and health outcomes
an overview of alcohol pricing policies in Canada and
a Canadian Alcohol Policy Model
designed to predict the health and crime prevention implications of alternative provincial alcohol policies.
A panel of eminent stakeholders will reflect on the implications of these findings for alcohol policy and public health in Canada. > > > > Read More
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Obtaining the Optimal Dose in Alcohol Dependence Studies
We advocate the use of dose-finding methodology that has been successfully implemented in the cancer and HIV settings to identify the optimal dose in a cost-effective way.
Specifically, we describe the continual reassessment method (CRM), an adaptive design proposed for cancer trials to reconcile the needs of dose-finding experiments with the ethical demands of established medical practice.
We are applying adaptive designs for identifying the optimal dose of medications for the first time in the context of pharmacotherapy research in alcoholism.
We provide an example of a topiramate trial as an illustration of how adaptive designs can be used to locate the optimal dose in alcohol treatment trials.
It is believed that the introduction of adaptive design methods will enable the development of medications for the treatment of alcohol dependence to be accelerated.
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The GAPC13 is being held October Monday 7th October - Wednesday 9th October. The theme of the conference is 'Alcohol, Civil Society and Public Health: from Local and National Action to Global Change'
There will be the opportunity to submit abstracts of papers to present either orally or in poster format. NGOs should start thinking about examples of their advocacy and mobilisation work that would be of interest to the global community > > > > Read More
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Acute ethanol responses in Drosophila are sexually dimorphic
In mammalian and insect models of ethanol intoxication, low doses of ethanol stimulate locomotor activity whereas high doses induce sedation. Sex differences in acute ethanol responses, which occur in humans, have not been characterized in Drosophila.
In this study, we find that male flies show increased ethanol hyperactivity and greater resistance to ethanol sedation compared with females. We show that the sex determination gene transformer (tra) acts in the developing nervous system, likely through regulation of fruitless (fru), to at least partially mediate the sexual dimorphism in ethanol sedation.
Although pharmacokinetic differences may contribute to the increased sedation sensitivity of females, neuronal tra expression regulates ethanol sedation independently of ethanol pharmacokinetics.
We also show that acute activation of fru-expressing neurons affects ethanol sedation, further supporting a role for fru in regulating this behavior.
Thus, we have characterized previously undescribed sex differences in behavioral responses to ethanol, and implicated fru in mediating a subset of these differences.
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Monday, December 3, 2012
News Release - Research reveals why some teenagers more prone to binge drinking
New research helps explain why some teenagers are more prone to drinking alcohol than others.
The study, led by King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) and published in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) provides the most detailed understanding yet of the brain processes involved in teenage alcohol abuse.
Alcohol and other addictive drugs activate the dopamine system in the brain which is responsible for feelings of pleasure and reward. Recent studies from King’s IoP found that the RASGRF2 gene is a risk gene for alcohol abuse, however, the exact mechanism involved in this process has, until now, remained unknown. > > > > Read More
High diversity and no significant selection signal of human ADH1B gene in Tibet.
ADH1B is one of the most studied human genes. Many polymorphic sites,one single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), rs1229984, coding for the Arg48His substitution, have been associated with many serious diseases including alcoholism and cancers of the digestive system. The derived allele, ADH1B*48His, reaches high frequency only in East Asia and Southwest Asia, and is highly associated with agriculture. Micro-evolutionary study has defined seven haplogroups for ADH1B based on seven SNPs encompassing the gene. Three of those haplogroups, H5, H6, and H7, contain the ADH1B*48His allele. H5 occurs in Southwest Asia and the other two are found in East Asia. H7 is derived from H6 by the derived allele of rs3811801. The H7 haplotype has been shown to have undergone significant positive selection in Han Chinese, Hmong, Koreans, Japanese, Khazak, Mongols, and so on.
In the present study, we tested whether Tibetans also showed evidence for selection by typing 23 SNPs in the region covering the ADH1B gene in 1,175 individuals from 12 Tibetan populations representing all districts of the Tibet Autonomous Region. Multiple statistics were estimated to examine the gene diversities and positive selection signals among the Tibetans and other populations in East Asia.
The larger Tibetan populations (Qamdo, Lhasa, Nagqu, Nyingchi, Shannan, and Shigatse) comprised mostly farmers, have around 12% of H7, and 2% of H6. The smaller populations, living on hunting or recently switched to farming, have lower H7 frequencies (Tingri 9%, Gongbo 8%, Monba and Sherpa 6%). Luoba (2%) and Deng (0%) have even lower frequencies. Long-range haplotype analyses revealed very weak signals of positive selection for H7 among Tibetans. Interestingly, the haplotype diversity of H7 is higher in Tibetans than in any other populations studied, indicating a longer diversification history for that haplogroup in Tibetans. Network analysis on the long-range haplotypes revealed that H7 in the Han Chinese did not come from the Tibetans but from a common ancestor of the two populations.
We argue that H7 of ADH1B originated in the ancestors of Sino-Tibetan populations and flowed to Tibetans very early. However, as Tibetans depend less on crops, and therefore were not significantly affected by selection. Thus, H7 has not risen to a high frequency, whereas the diversity of the haplogroup has accumulated to a very high level.
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Alcohol News - 49/2012
News2Biz (Latvia) - LATVIA:
Stricter regulations for alcohol retail
The Latvian Saeima has
supported new alcohol retail regulations. Although alcohol still can be
purchased from 18 years, now the buyers aged 18-25 will have to present an ID to
the cashier without being asked to do so.
Lunaticg Banknote (Latvia) -
Latvia new coin bring controversy
Latvia new coin bring
controversy when their own country health ministry write a protest letter to
Bank of Latvia that the new coin is just a way to advertise alcohol. The
Cupro-nickel coin was released earlier this month for Latvia solstice festival,
where people will drink beers for the celebrations.
ERR News (Estonia) -
'Dry Days' Contemplated as Part of National Alcohol
Policy
More details have emerged
regarding the Social Affairs Ministry's vision of a national alcohol policy,
painting a picture of a sharp change of course toward increased
restrictions.
IOGT (Sweden) - Sweden calls for an end to alcohol advertising on national
television
Today alcohol advertising is
broadcasted on several Swedish TV channels even though there is a clear
prohibition against alcohol advertising on radio and TV. By broadcasting from
the UK, TV channels, so far, have managed to circumvent Swedish
legislation.
GRETTE (Norway) - Alcohol brand owners might be allowed to advertise on Norwegian
TV
Norway is on the verge of
involuntarily allowing the advertising of alcoholic beverages on television,
contrary to the country’s strict alcohol policy. This change, which may take
place as a result of pressure from the EU Commission, would have a significant
impact for owners of alcohol brands.
HaberMonitor (Denmark) -
Excessive alcohol consumption of young people
revolted NGOs in Denmark
Despite all the measures
implemented in Denmark recently mitigated with a kind of alcohol consumption,
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) brought to the point of
rebellion.
BBC News (UK) - EC voice opposition to Scotland's alcohol price
plan
Scotland's plans for minimum
pricing on alcohol are a disproportionate response to the country's drink
problems, the European Commission has said.
Fox News - Drug, alcohol abuse tied to early-life strokes
Younger adults who suffered a
stroke were often smokers or had abused drugs or alcohol, according to a U.S.
study that looked at over 1,000 patients.
Herald Scotland (Scotland) -
Police issue alcohol warning to
drivers
The Association of Chief Police
Officers in Scotland (Acpos) said that, while they support Scottish Government
proposals to reduce the alcohol limit, people who plan to get behind the wheel
should not drink any alcohol at all.
Wall Street Journal (USA) -
After-Hours Prohibition: U.S. Military Tightens
Drinking Rules in Japan
The U.S. military in Okinawa
has now prohibited all personnel from consuming alcohol while off base and
restricted purchases of alcohol on base, according to a statement released over
the weekend.
Irish Health (Ireland) -
Alcohol kills someone every seven
hours
There are more retail outlets
in Ireland where you can purchase alcohol than fruit, vegetables or milk, a
public health specialist has said.
The Australian (Australia) -
Police launch nationwide crackdown on alcohol-related
violence
REVELLERS who refuse to leave a
pub or a club or fail to obey police orders will be hit with minimum $550
on-the-spot fines as part of the biggest crackdown on alcohol-related violence
in Australia's history.
IcelandReview (Iceland) -
Higher Benefits and Tariffs on Alcohol and
Tobacco
The Government of Iceland is
planning to boost revenue for the treasury by ISK 8.3 billion (USD 66 million,
EUR 51 million) next year, such as by higher tariffs on alcohol and tobacco.
These actions are to finance the increase in child benefits, among other
issues.
BBC (Scotland) - Scots drink deaths fall but rates still high, says
NHS
Alcohol-related deaths in
Scotland have fallen, but the rate is still one of the highest in western and
central Europe, an NHS report has said.
ABC Local (Australia) -
Winemakers strategy to combat anti-alcohol
lobby
The Winemakers Federation has a
fresh strategy to combat health messages that alcohol is bad for us. The
Federation is aniticipating sustained volleys from a committed anti-alcohol
lobby.
Science World Report -
Excess alcohol can have lasting effects on brain:
Research
Using fly larvae as models, a
new study reveals how overuse of alcohol can cause lasting changes in the brain
even after alcohol abuse stops. In this study, the fly larvae were fed alcohol-
spiked food for a period of days and they noticed how the larvae grew dependent
on the spirit.'
Independent Online (South
Africa) - Sex, drugs, booze up students’ HIV
risk
More high school pupils are
having sex, drinking alcohol and taking drugs before going to university –
putting themselves at risk of contracting HIV and Aids, a local study has
revealed.
Irish Times (Ireland) -
15% off-sales alcohol tax proposed
Publicans have urged the
Government to introduce a 15 per cent tax on off-licence alcohol sales in the
budget.
WA today (Australia) -
Alcohol warning labels by 2014: parliamentary
inquiry
Health warning labels will be
added to alcohol products and advertisements by January 2014 if the federal
government adopts a recommendation by a parliamentary inquiry.
Times of India (India) -
More Indian women dependent on
alcohol
The 33-year-old married woman
from Chandigarh had never imagined that her excessive clubbing and partying
would one day push her to the brink of suicide. But it did.
Examiner.com - Fetal alcohol syndrome affects on brain defined in new
study
Researchers at the department
of radiology at Jagiellonian University in Krakow Poland presented the most
extensive definition to date of the affects on developing baby's brains by their
mother’s consumption of alcohol during pregnancy at the November 25, 2012,
session of the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America
(RSNA).
Wall Street Journal (South
Korea) - As South Korea Tackles Drinking Culture,
Samsung Sets Guidelines
After kicking off the night
guzzling soju, a rice-based liquor, over grilled pork or raw fish, he and his
co-workers would move on to a pub or karaoke lounge, occasionally past
midnight.
Kyiv Post (Ukraine) -
Alcohol price rise comes into effect
The increase in the floor
wholesale and retail prices of some type of alcohol foreseen in cabinet
resolution No. 1017 took effect from November 26, 2012.
ITV News (Wales) - Minimum alcohol price plans don't go far enough - Welsh
Government
Responding to the UK
Government's plans to impose a minimum price for alcohol of 45p per unit, a
Welsh Government spokesperson said:
CBS News - Alcohol in "Flight" puts trademark laws in focus
The use of brand-name beer and
liquor in a hit movie about an alcoholic pilot has brought product placement
practices into new focus.
The Daily Telegraph -
Drink brands attract underage followers on
Facebook
ALCOHOL companies are turning
to social media to encourage teenagers to drink. A study has found that brands
popular among youths are increasingly harnessing sites like Facebook to broaden
their reach.
Fars News Agency (UK) -
Alcohol Second Cause of Early Death in
UK
Findings of a recent study
blamed alcohol as the primary cause of liver disease and second cause of early
death in the UK.
Statesman Journal -
Kids need parents, not drinking
buddies
Loud pulsing music muffles the
sound of young voices. Teens clutching cups of beer are dancing, nestled in dark
corners, or passed out on couches. Where are the parents?
Technorati - Women are Dying to Drink like Men
The English Chief Medical
officer has warned that women are damaging their health by trying to drink like
men. Prof Dame Sally Davies, chief medical officer for England said women are
damaging their livers and putting themselves at risk for alcohol abuse, obesity
and a whole host of other problems.
MarketWatch (Canada) -
Canada Needs Minimum Alcohol Prices to Reduce Harm:
New Research Series
New alcohol pricing research
upholds the call for minimum pricing and confirms that changes to price policy
can reduce alcohol-related harm in Canada.
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