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Notorious abroad for their binge-drinking, Britons bucked the trend last year with alcohol consumption in the country showing its biggest fall since 1948, the industry said Friday. Health concerns and the recession triggered a six percent year-on-year decline in 2009, also the fourth annual drop in five years, figures released by the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) showed. Alchohol ...

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Prime Minister David Cameron has signalled support for local authorities to ban the cheap sale of alcohol, as the government seeks to crack down on the country's notorious binge drinking culture. Cameron said plans to introduce a minimum price per unit of alcohol sold in shops and pubs in the northwest of the country would be looked at "very ...

Prime Minister David Cameron has signalled support for local authorities to ban the cheap sale of alcohol, as Britain seeks to crack down on the country's notorious binge drinking culture. The Conservative leader said plans to introduce a minimum price per unit of alcohol sold in shops and pubs in the northwest of England would be looked at "very ...

Prime Minister David Cameron has signalled support for local authorities to ban the cheap sale of alcohol, as the government seeks to crack down on the country's notorious binge drinking culture. Cameron said plans to introduce a minimum price per unit of alcohol sold in shops and pubs in the northwest of the country would be looked at "very ...

Alcoholic Janetta van Bruggen settles comfortably into a clinic chair, lights a cigarette and takes a supervised swig from a tall, frosted mug -- her sixth beer since breakfast. Previously forced to drink on the sly, up to two litres (two quarts) of wine and three litres of beer per day, she is one of 19 clients of an innovative Dutch ...

The "death knell" will be sounded for the 24-hour drinking laws under new government plans which aim to tackle the country's chronic binge drinking problem, reports said Thursday. The legislation for late licensing, introduced by the previous Labour government in 2005, was meant to usher in a so-called "cafe culture" and encourage more moderate drinking habits. But critics claim ...

Britain will sound the "death knell" for its 24-hour drinking laws under new government plans which aim to tackle the country's chronic binge drinking problem, reports said Thursday. The legislation for late licensing, introduced by the previous Labour government in 2005, was meant to usher in a so-called "cafe culture" and encourage more moderate drinking habits. But critics claim ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A combination of antidepressants, alcohol counseling and behavioral therapy may help curb violent tendencies in men with drinking problems, a small clinical trial suggests. U.S. government researchers found that adding the antidepressant fluoxetine (Prozac) to alcohol treatment and behavioral therapy worked better than the latter two alone in reducing anger and aggression among alcoholic men ...

The pope on Thursday told a German bishop who resigned amid accusations of physical abuse, sexual harassment and alcoholism that he must take time for silent prayer, treatment and reconciliation if he wants to return to pastoral work. Pope Benedict XVI laid out the terms for Bishop ...