Modern states take a variety of approaches to curtail or regulate the drinking of alcoholic beverages by young people. The United States, with its across-the-board minimum legal drinking age of 21, is something of an outlier; many other countries have a
With the largest living generation transitioning into old age, and life spans increasing around the world, the global population is growing older. However, public policy measures to address harmful drinking, including in developed countries, rarely include attention to the specific needs of the ...
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, countries around the world took measures to mitigate the spread of the virus. Many governments introduced social distancing measures or lockdowns, to limit citizens’ contact outside their own households. These measures were intended to benefit citizens’ healt...
(2012) found that people in early-middle age drink at home in the evenings, sometimes heavily, to alleviate stress related to work or domestic responsibilities. Choosing to drink at home rather than elsewhere is also driven by cheapness and convenience, particularly for parents with young ...
its high rates of alcohol addiction, Lithuania is working on increasing alcohol tax rates and extending the legal drinking age from 18 to 20. The country also wants to limit the hours during which alcohol is sold every day to prevent Lithuanians from fueling their addictions around the clock....
Drinking cultures and the position of women in nine European countries. Substance Abuse - Allamani, Voller, et al. - 2000 () Citation Context ...are likely to have contributed to increasing drinking levels. Studies around the world have noted that greater entry into the workforce has been ...
I brought my kids up in the American fashion. No booze until legal age, no small sips or celebratory drinks, and so on. I did not wish to give them the idea that, by my acquiescence to small amounts of alcohol, drinking was OK. In retrospect, it simply doesn't work. The topic ne...
In addition, the Monte Carlo method (a statistical simulation method) was applied to evaluate the Sr intake from drinking water and human health risks among different age groups and different regions. As shown in the results, the Sr was in the concentration range of 0.005–3.11 mg/L with a...
Based on the "Alcohol Health Disorder Countermeasures Basic Law" enacted in 2014, we are taking independent measures to prevent the abuse of alcohol such as setting the age of celebrities appearing in TV ads to 25 and older, and removing the sound effect of "gulp" when drinks go down the ...
And while it's unclear to what extent memes and online videos influence women's drinking habits, the topic merits further study, said Adams, who with colleagues last year found that women without children at age 35 are still at the highest risk for binge-drinking and alcohol use disorder sym...