An archive of recent news articles on the topic of alcohol and drugs.
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UK teens world's worst drunks
9th September 2009
Britain has the biggest drink problem among 13-year-olds in the Western world, according to a major study on child wellbeing published today. The figures show 21 per cent of 13-year-old boys and 20 per cent of teenage girls admit to being drunk at least twice in a year. The international average was 9 and 7 per cent.
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Radical smoking plans win support
8th September 2009
A proposal to license tobacco retailers and turn cigarette packs into plain packages bearing only health warnings has found strong support. In planning for the "end game" of widespread tobacco use, researchers canvassed public health physicians, policy officials in the Ministry of Health and other departments, and journalists.
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School principal stunned by 'threatening' invasion
3rd September 2009
Police are investigating another "invasion" after a fight at a secondary school which took place yesterday. About 20 boys, believed to be from Mana College in Porirua, allegedly went to Bishop Viard College at lunch time and threatened students on the rugby field. It is understood they were armed with a baseball bat.
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More weapons in school fights
3rd September 2009
The apparent increase in school-related incidents involving weapons is a cause of real concern, the head of the Secondary Principals Association said today. Eight youths armed with a baseball bat stormed Auckland's Lynfield College on Monday and beat up a 14-year-old boy.
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North declares war on P
2nd September 2009
A Northland retailer who fled from his shop moments before an armed P user was shot dead by police says people need a lot more education about the evils of methamphetamine.
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Pubs slammed for cheap drink promotions
2nd September 2009
Bars around the country could be breaking the law with promotions that encourage binge-drinking, says an alcohol advisory group. Hamilton's Bahama Hut has what it calls "Funtastic Fridays" and "Super Saturdays", where bar-goers can drink anything they like from 9pm until 3am, for $39 on the Friday and $45 on the Saturday.
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Athletics: Hunter-Galvan banned from London Olympics
1st September 2009
Disgraced New Zealand athlete Liza Hunter-Galvan will be ineligible to compete at the 2012 Olympic Games, the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) has ruled. United States-based marathon runner Hunter-Galvan was suspended for two years after testing positive for banned substance erythropoietin (EPO), with the ban to finish in May 2011.
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The day after the night before
1st September 2009
A doctor talks about what they see after a drunken encounter. "The morning after we take the stitches out and tend to broken limbs, deal with victims of assaults, and distribute the morning-after pill and check for STIs [sexually transmitted infections]." The effect of binge drinking on Canterbury teenagers extends well beyond a nasty hangover, says New Brighton GP Kim Burgess. It is common for family doctors such as Burgess to spend Monday mornings dealing with the aftermath of drunk teenagers. Young women often admit to having sex with men they might not normally even associate with, she says. "Alcohol encourages poor decision-making ..."
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Overdoses show risks of widely sold painkiller
27th August 2009
Auckland City Hospital sees on average six adults a week who have poisoned themselves with New Zealand's most widely used painkiller. A specialist in the adults emergency department, Dr Bernard Foley, said a few of the patients accidentally took too many doses of paracetamol for a headache, but in most cases people had deliberately harmed themselves.
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Dangers of booze 'hard to ignore'
27th August 2009
Maria (not her real name) is a 40-something Christchurch mother with a 17-year-old daughter, Lizzy. Like many parents, Maria struggles with how to keep her daughter safe, and away from alcohol, in a world where teen drinking seems to be the norm. "I worry about her walking the streets drinking alcohol or having stuff that older guys have given her," Maria says. "She possibly does that a bit, but I prefer to think that if I give her the odd bottle she will drink that and not have to get into dodgy situations."
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