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Interview with Mr Peter Abetz, Member of Parliament of West Australia

International Blue Cross: Peter, at the beginning of this year, you and your colleagues from the Education and Health Standing Committee of the West Australian parliament were on a fact-finding trip through Europe on the adequacy of prevention and treatment services for alcohol and illicit drug problems. Could you briefly explain the context and purpose of this trip? Peter Abetz: The consumption... read more



"Drinking is dangerous"

Bathabile Dlamini, South African Minister of Social Development, supports in a pathbreaking statement the government's intended ban on advertising alcohol. The statement is a reaction to the alcohol and advertising industries' petition aimed at pressuring government to abandon its strategy on evidence-based, more restrictive alcohol policies. To find out more, click here.     read more



Alcoholic liver disease taking its toll on the young

By Richard Bilton BBC News - UK Liver disease is now the country's fifth biggest killer and cases of alcoholic liver disease in the under-30s have risen by half in the past 10 years, says the Department of Health. The coalition wants a "drink strategy" with input from both the health lobby and the drinks industry, but can they work together? To find out more, click here. read more



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