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The St John's rector, Michael Bongers, last Thursday suspended 30 students for forcing a female student during O-Week to drink alcohol. She was allergic to it and ended up in hospital. This event comes as no surprise to those who have gone through similar experiences. via Trial by ordeal to enter university college's hallowed halls. [...]
The evidence for warning labels on alcohol products is strong, yet there is considerable opposition from industry. This is despite the fact that it is highly likely that the community will benefit. The sun herald has just run a story on it, in which 4 points of view were presented- 3 of them were against [...]
Young teens who watch a lot of movies featuring alcohol are twice as likely to start drinking as their peers who watch relatively few such films, reveals new research from Dartmouth's Norris Cotton Cancer Center that is published in the online journal BMJ Open. Moreover, these teens are significantly more likely to progress to binge [...]
Schoolchildren need compulsory alcohol education from the age of 9 or 10, according to Children's Commissioner Michelle Scott.Speaking ahead of the first day of the school year, she said programs needed to start in middle primary school before children's attitudes started to develop, after recent WA research showed 30 per cent of 14 to 17-year-olds [...]
Risk-taking may be based in biology, but that does not diminish the possible unhealthy consequences of alcohol and other drugs and tobacco on the developing teen brain. Recent brain research with magnetic resonance imaging suggests that alcohol impacts adolescents differently than it does adults. Young people are more vulnerable to the negative effects of alcohol [...]
The proportion of the population aged 14 years or older who consumed alcohol daily declined between 2007 8.1% and 2010 7.2%. However, there was little change in the proportion of people drinking alcohol at levels that put them at risk of harm over their lifetime 20.3% in 2007 and 20.1% in 2010, or from a [...]
In 2012, schools have to acknowledge the fact that their teachers have more face-to-face access to teenagers than their parents. This means that schools have a responsibility for so much more than just the academic performance of the students in their charge. Research by Professor Ian Schochet suggests that school attachment is vitally important, and could bear a [...]
Woolies criticised by leading motoring body for offering discounts to entice people to buy more alcohol. via Get a gutful, then a tankful: Woolies under fire for 30c alcohol-fuel discount.
RESEARCHERS have found that a growing number of people are reporting toxicity from energy drinks in Australia, especially teenagers. Red Bull and V were the most common causes. Click here to read the report
"Surely our governments can manage just one small step to show that protecting unborn children is more important than protecting the drinks industry"....Prof Mike Daube Read more about this important issue here: FARE.
