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Alcohol & binge drinking

MacAskill sorry about 'cooking lager' jibe HE TALKS tough about Scotland's booze shame, but now Kenny MacAskill, the justice secretary, has been forced to grovel to the brewers of the country's best-known lager.

Scots child diagnosed with rare drink-related disease A CHILD in Lanarkshire has become the youngest person in the UK to be diagnosed with a rare drink-related brain disease that usually affects alcoholics.

Scotland's Alcohol Shame: Hungover middle-class parents who leave children to fend for themselves PARENTS are damaging their children through their alcohol use without realising they are doing it, experts believe.

Scotland's Alcohol Shame: Experts target women as middle-class drinkers face health threat WOMEN who overindulge by consuming too much wine are to be targeted in efforts to tackle Scotland's dangerous alcohol culture, it emerged yesterday.

'Radical measures' vow to cut alcohol abuse

Capital targets 'bevvy culture' blighting city

A story every parent should read: 100 Scots children a week in A&E, drunk on about 6 pints each, aged as young as 8

MacAskill leads the crusade to outlaw sales of cheap alcohol

Vodka, Mad Dog and Buckfast: This is Friday night for 'bored' 12-year-old

One in seven off-licences sells drink to children

Town bans drink sales to under-21s

Alcohol rethink for pregnant women

Legal age for buying drink in Scotland may rise to 21

Drunken stars fuel binge-drink culture – pub chain boss

Medical expert calls on shops to downsize wine bottles

Toddlers under one suffer drink problems

Asda joins forces with Tesco in move to end era of cheap alcohol

Buying time on binge drinking

£200,000 to help fund 'workshops' for violent gang members

Consumers, not retailers, of alcohol are the real polluters

SNP threatens to tax supermarkets in war on booze culture

Should shopkeepers pay for our addiction to drink?

Beer cheaper than water drives surge in supermarket drink sales

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