Sweden:  Booze to your doorstep? Sweden opens up alcohol home delivery to everyone

Sweden:  Booze to your doorstep? Sweden opens up alcohol home delivery to everyone After a long trial period, Sweden’s state-run Systembolaget chain will be able to deliver alcohol home to customers across the entire country. The Local se By Adam Rosenfeld June 17, 2019 After a trial period in which only a few of Sweden’s 21 counties […]

United Kingdom:  Alcohol sales to street drinkers could be traced with forensic technology

United Kingdom:  Alcohol sales to street drinkers could be traced with forensic technology The Telegraph By Hasan Chowdhury June 18, 2019 Shopkeepers that sell “superstrength” alcohol to street drinkers could soon be identified and fined using forensic technology that can trace exactly where cans were purchased. Under a new scheme, cans and bottles of alcohol in Bradford […]

Scotland:  New support for 170,000 Scots children damaged by alcohol

Scotland:  New support for 170,000 Scots children damaged by alcohol STV News June 18, 2019 A service has been launched for families of children who were exposed to alcohol in the womb. A new support service has been launched for the families of children who were exposed to alcohol in the womb. Foetal Alcohol Spectrum […]

Drugs, Suicide And Alcohol Causing More Millennial Deaths

Drugs, Suicide And Alcohol Causing More Millennial Deaths Medical Daily By Johnny Vatican   June 18, 2019 Millennials, the generation born from the 1980s to the 1990s, is being ravaged by a deadly crisis that saw more than 36,000 of their number commit suicide in 2017 alone. This deadly affliction is being called “deaths of despair” and […]