The New York Times (USA) - Complications From Alcohol Use Are Rising Among WomenA new study adds to a mounting body of evidence showing that rising alcohol consumption among women is leading to higher rates of death and disease. Read more Euractiv - Evidence-based actions to reduce alcohol harms are crucial nowThe European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) calls on the EU to accelerate public health policies to reduce liver diseases, improve quality of life, and save significant costs. Read more Sky News (Scotland) - MSPs back Scottish government plans to increase minimum alcohol ..read more

Irish Examiner (Ireland) - Women earning more than €35k annually are most at risk for babies having fetal alcohol spectrum disorderWomen earning more than €35,000 annually are most at risk for babies having fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, a leading public health consultant has warned. Read more Clare FM (Ireland) - FASD Ireland Celebrates First BirthdayFASD Ireland, a support service, based in Ennis, people living in Ireland with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder recently celebrated its first birthday. Read more News-Medical - Even moderate alcohol use by pregnant patients may affect babies ..read more

The New York Times - Should Alcoholic Beverages Have Cancer Warning Labels?Ireland will require them starting in 2026, and there are nascent efforts elsewhere to add more explicit labeling about the health risks of drinking. Read more BBC (Northern Ireland) - Cancer charity supports NI alcohol warning labelsCancer warning labels on alcohol products should be introduced in Northern Ireland, according to a cancer charity. Read more CNN - A drink now may impact you more than it would years ago. Here’s why that’s a problemRetirement may be time for a lot of fun things, but an increase in drinking ..read more

CBC (Canada) - Vancouver raises the bar for alcohol-free drinksThe recently launched Mocktails store and The Drive Canteen, a sober snack bar, are among the Vancouver businesses responding to a growing demand for non-alcoholic beverages. Read more Boston University - Reducing Late-Night Alcohol Sales Curbed Violent Crimes by 23% Per Year in a Baltimore NeighborhoodA new study found that reducing alcohol hours of sale for bars and taverns in a Baltimore, Md. neighborhood also reduced homicides by 51 percent within the first month and by 40 percent annually, pointing to possible opportunities ..read more

ERR News (Estonia) - Health minister: Alcohol advertising limitations do not restrict personal freedomsThe alcohol advertising revenue of a few companies and the effect increased alcohol consumption has on economic growth pale in comparison to the damage done by addiction, sickness and premature deaths in society, Health Minister Riina Sikkut (SDE) writes. Read more Kaiser Health News (USA) - More Women Are Drinking Themselves Sick. The Biden Administration Is Concerned.When Karla Adkins looked in the rearview mirror of her car one morning nearly 10 years ago, she noticed the whites of her e ..read more

The Telegraph (South Africa) - South Africa’s alcohol addiction and the disabled newborns paying the priceSouth Africa’s Western Cape is known for its dramatic coastlines and acres of wineland. But behind the blue skies and rolling hills, the province is grappling with a heartbreaking health crisis. Read more RNZ (New Zealand) - Veteran alcohol harm reduction campaigner's message for non-Māori organisationsSpeaking at the event, Rātu gave a brief summation of Māori efforts to reduce alcohol harm, focussing on work around Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). Read more FASD Hub Australia (A ..read more

The Conversation (Australia) - Mother’s little helper: interviews with Australian women show a complex relationship with alcoholMen have historically, and still do, drink more than women. But in recent years there has been an uptick in women’s drinking, particularly among women in their late 30s through to their 60s. Read more CTV News (Canada) - Alcohol excise tax capped at two per cent for two more years, Freeland announcesFinance Minister Chrystia Freeland says the federal government will cap the annual alcohol excise tax increase on beer, spirits and wine at two per cent for an additional ..read more

Lake Country Calendar (Canada) - West Kelowna student shares his experience living with FASDMiddle school student Sebastian Gould appeared before the Central Okanagan Board of Education last Wednesday to shine a light on the struggles and victories he experiences daily as a student diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). Read more The Conversation (USA) - Hundreds of thousands of US infants every year pay the consequences of prenatal exposure to drugs, a growing crisis particularly in rural AmericaNearly 1 in 12 newborns in the United States in 2020 – or about 300,000 infants ..read more

World Health Organization (WHO) - Shouldn’t we know this already? The link between alcohol and breast cancerMany people across the WHO European Region will celebrate 8 March, International Women’s Day, by raising a glass of an alcoholic beverage – oblivious to the fact that drinking alcohol is a major risk factor for the most common cancer among women, breast cancer. Read more BBC - Why alcohol is so dangerous for young adults' brainsFrom the myth of Europeans' "healthy drinking culture" to the surprising harm of some common family traditions, science is overturning old beliefs around alcohol ..read more

EUFASD - New member of the EUFASD AllianceThe EUFASD Alliance welcomes our new member organization, Fremtidens børn (Children of the future), from Denmark. Fremtidens børn work to increase knowledge and prevent children from being exposed to alcohol, drugs, violence and trauma. Read more popNAD (Finland) - Use of alcohol and/or illicit drugs during pregnancy and long-term consequences for child developmentConsuming alcohol and/or illicit drugs when pregnant can have serious consequences on a wide range of issues for the child. In her doctoral dissertation, Niina-Maria Nissinen studied how Fi ..read more