Category: alcohol harm

1 in 5 Young Adults Dies From Excessive Alcohol Consumption

And why weren’t they citing the soaring rates of this in 2020, instead of the number of COVID ‘cases’? It couldn’t be more clear that health officials did not have public health in mind when they declared these stores as ‘essential’ while shutting down this. STORY AT-A-GLANCE Deaths attributed to excessive alcohol consumption in the…


New Zealand Rolls out Alcohol Law Reform

The New Zealand (NZ) government has granted communities greater powers to set their own rules around alcohol sales, but wider alcohol law reform is expected to take time. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she wasn’t comfortable with the way alcohol was currently marketed in the country. However, given how “embedded” alcohol advertising and sponsorship was…