Bars in Colchester have been warned to ditch irresponsible promotions that are in breach of the new mandatory alcohol retailing code , according to the Morning Advertiser . The local borough council have written to premises breaching the code advising them to withdraw the promotions or face a license review. Two nightclubs have now stopped promotions offering 12 drinks and free entry for a set price
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Tagged alcohol industry, code, local-borough, mandatory, office, police, promotions, saying-it-risks, selling-alcohol, the-mandatory
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Nearly 4 million adults in California reported being a victim of physical or sexual violence at the hands of a spouse, companion or other intimate partner, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Of those victims, more than 1 million reported being forced to have sex by an intimate partner, the study found…
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Tagged being-forced, california, from-the-ucla, hands, health, health-policy, intimate, new-policy, reported-being, sexual-violence, study, the-hands, the-study
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New research shows that Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) continues to dramatically reduce rates of mortality from HIV infection in high-income countries, such that non-AIDS-related deaths exceed AIDS deaths after approximately four years of taking ART…
Call on govt review panel for better alcohol labeling VIC: Research released today shows half of all Victorians don’t realise that alcohol causes cancer, prompting the Alcohol Policy Coalition to call for health advisory labels on all alcohol products to better inform consumers…
Background: Injection drug users continue to be at high risk of HIV and HCV. Research has shown needle exchange programs (NEP) decrease injection frequency, reduce syringe reuse, and reduce needle sharing, though some results have been mixed. Methods: This evaluation of a small, peri-urban, legal NEP near Ypsilanti, Michigan describes the operation of the NEP and its clients
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
A recent study by Danish researchers discovered patients with alcoholic cirrhosis had a high prevalence of complications at the time of the disease diagnosis. Researchers noted that complications, such as ascites (excessive fluid in the abdomen), were predictors of mortality, but did not develop in a predictable sequence…
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
For as long as our ancestors have been drawing pictograms or writing prose about food and culture, humans have been imbibing various forms of alcohol.
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Tagged ancestors, been-imbibing, fabric, later-use, now-provides, our-ancestors, production, the-fabric, the-production, various-forms, writing-prose
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A report 'EU citizens’ attitudes towards alcohol' has been released, continuing to show the UK and Ireland in particular as having the highest reported rates of binge drinking (EU definition* of five drinks or more on any one occasion). According to the report: 'Alcohol consumption in the EU is at a similar level to four years ago
A seminar 'The Cost of Alcohol: Passive drinking' organised by Eurocare
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Tagged alcohol-action, children, cliona-murphy, family, interpersonal, invisible, netherlands, policy, reduce-alcohol, safety, seminar-report, the-collateral, young people
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Reuters Examines HIV/AIDS Prevention Strategies Targeting IDUs”Countries in eastern Europe and central Asia face spiralling AIDS epidemics if they fail to help people who inject drugs and stop the spread of infection, [Michel Sidibe,] the head of the United Nations agency for HIV/AIDS said on Friday,” Reuters reports in a piece that examines Sidibe’s comments on several HIV/AID…
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Tagged aids, europe, examines, face-spiralling, help-people, hiv / aids, michel-sidibe, prevention, said-on-friday, sidibe, spread, stop-the-spread, targeting, united, united-nations
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