Alcohol understanding for all
Alcohol can cause and worsen the common mental health problems anxiety and depression. Drinking little or no alcohol may help relieve these problems. For more alcohol understanding, please join the supporters. ■
Increasing our exposure to an activity, like say playing piano, typically increases our skills in that activity, but the opposite is the case with alcohol drinking because it is an addictive psychoactive. The negative effects of exposure are greatest when we are still young and our brains are still forming. ■
Alcohol is not useful, with all of its purported benefits achievable by other means which are not hazardous to health or well-being. ■
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In this issue:
News: Alcohol-violence link acknowledged; Tax rise return in Lithuania; UK adds up societal costs; Oregon itemises treatment shortfall: Ontario “boozedoggle”costed; Bihar’s prohibition payoffs; US alcohol levels remain elevated; Alcohol banned at the French Open tennis
Meme stocks: Distilled alcohol messages
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Alcohol impairs a wide range of brain functions, making a wide range of mistakes more likely, with consequences ranging from the minor to the life-changing. Drinking less alcohol means fewer mistakes. ■
Only a tiny fraction of us scan QR codes, making them the perfect way to conceal information while also, technically, providing it. Consumers have a right to be told alcohol’s health effects directly on the label in plain language. ■