- Watching football and drinking: University of Sussex research reveals that the roaring crowds may be drinking their way through the game in an effort to compensate for not being good enough to play in it. Scenta
- The unhealthy lifestyles of teenage girls who routinely skip meals, take drugs and drink and smoke too much have been exposed by a new Schools Health Education Unit (SHEU) survey. They are missing breakfast to lose weight while increasingly knocking back large quantities of spirits and experimenting with drugs such as cannabis. Daily Mail story; SHEU
- Blackpool has a higher rate of drunken attacks on police officers than anywhere else in the North West. The statistics, produced by researchers at Liverpool John Moores University, showed: 167 constables were assaulted in Blackpool in 2004/05, the highest number in the North West. Alcohol was involved in 62 of the offences. Blackpool Today
- Football fans across Merseyside and Cheshire are being urged to curb their drinking during the World Cup. NHS workers will use the month-long tournament to launch a campaign highlighting the health dangers of alcohol. Meanwhile, police will get involved to crack down on violence in pubs and bars that screen matches. icLiverpool
- A nurse who set out to tackle a massive problem of alcohol-related illness in his local community has been named Northern Ireland nurse of the year.
He set up an alcohol liaison service in the Mater Hospital in north Belfast with a view to identifying high risk patients at an early stage, and went on to work in schools and with community groups and to lobby local politicians for action. StaffNurse.com
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