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Our drinking culture has brought some colourful phrases into the Australian vernacular.
New study: it’s a case of use them, or lose them.
The rise of annual January drinking campaigns. shows that our ideas of moderate drinking aren’t solely based public health guidlelines.
Today’s trendiest booze makers and bars insist on going rather further than the simple imbibing of alcohol.
Women are catching up to men in rates of alcohol consumption and this has important implications for how we think about our community response to harmful alcohol use.
It’s important to know the recommendations on drinking to ensure we’re not drinking too much for our own health and for the safety of others.
Germans like beer, French people wine and Italians coffee. Right?
Feeling thirsty could be affecting your brain function more than you realise.
Research suggests lower blood alcohol concentration limits and interventions like ignition interlocks can make a big difference.
Smartphone apps can help people cut back on the amount of alcohol they drink. But is it nagging apps or gentle persuiasion that people prefer?
Since the earliest days of British colonisation, authorities have sought to limit the problems associated with alcohol by licensing its sale and limiting the times and places where it is drunk.
Hypertension is one of the leading causes of cardiovascular diseases such as stroke, heart attacks, heart failure and peripheral vascular disease. And in the developing world, it is on the rise.
British drinking culture isn’t just bingeing.
A zero tolerance approach is unlikely to curb the behaviour of individuals who choose to drink then drive.
Some children drink alcohol. This study of 11-year-olds looked at how parents’ drinking might influence behaviour.
Why does drinking too much leave you feeling so rotten?
When most of us are asked to imagine an alcoholic and they probably think of a middle-aged straight man. But new research highlights the risks of heavy drinking on the gay scene.
Britain’s night-time economy appears to be in a state of decline if recent headlines are anything to go by. Nearly half of the UK’s clubs have closed their doors in the past decade and pubs are closing…
After all the unsuccessful years of educating us about drinking units, maybe it’s time to start giving the advice in bottles, glasses and pints.
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Adjunct Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne based), Curtin University
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Professor of History, University of Warwick
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Postdoctoral Research Associate (University of Newcastle), University of Newcastle
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Director of the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University
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Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University
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Reader in Sociology, Loughborough University
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Professor of Criminology, University of Leeds
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Professor of Regional Economic Development, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Scientist, Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research and Professor of Psychology, University of Victoria
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Professor of Alcohol Policy, Sheffield Alcohol Research Group, University of Sheffield
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Research Associate, DECIPHer, Cardiff University
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Senior Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Allied Health, Sport and Social Work, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of York
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Professor of Public Health Research, Co-Director of Crime and Security Research Institute and Director of the Violence Research Group, Cardiff University