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When employers treat staff drinking problems as a health issue, they get much better results.
With pubs closed during lockdown, many British people opted to drink more at home.
In an era before clinical trials, medical writers drew on the stories of explorers as evidence about the health effects of different foods and drinks.
Most hangover cures don’t work, but research shows a few make a difference.
The key is start preparing before January.
Researchers have identified four main reasons young people in high-income countries are drinking less.
A bit of alcohol may protect your heart, but binge drinking could send it into a dangerous flutter.
Australians are entering our most dangerous time of year for fatal drownings. So what can you do to keep yourself and loved ones safer this summer?
Industry repeatedly cited large and often untested figures of profit and job losses to oppose alcohol restrictions during South Africa’s lockdown.
While shelves empty and the “booze trains” run, humanity’s ancient festival dream of equality and justice awaits.
Latest figures show the fatal consequences of pandemic drinking habits.
In general, intoxication is not a defence against criminal charges. There are, however, a few circumstances under which intoxication can be used as a defence.
Doing exercise diminished students’ craving for alcohol, a new study found.
Young Nigerians are culturally encouraged to overdrink. How can they be protected?
Now restrictions are easing, some people who have not used alcohol or other drugs recently may start to use them again, and need to be aware of their reduced tolerance.
People who increased their drinking significantly during the pandemic are risking illness.
It may have ‘worked’ for Winston Churchill. That doesn’t mean it will work for you.
There’s something satisfying about how grimy, disastrous and flawed Ace and Iggy are allowed to be in this new SBS web series.
A debate over the future of dealcoholised wine is raging in Brussels.
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