A Round Up of Alcohol News
Injured drinkers filling emergency rooms Drunks are overburdening NSW emergency rooms, researchers have found. Yobs on the outer for Boxing Day Test A MAJOR section of the MCG will be declared a "yobbo-free zone" during next month's Boxing Day Test. Schoolies the drunkest ever - policeThis year's batch of schoolies are the drunkest ever and have shown little respect for Queensland's drinking laws, according to police. Teenagers pressured to guzzle the boozeThe phrase "never trust a man who doesn't drink" is embedded deeply in our culture alongside Vegemite and mateship. But when binge drinking is the new synonym for teenage socialisation, perhaps the time has come for Australians to reconsider our attitude towards alcohol. Injured drinkers filling emergency roomsDrunks are overburdening NSW emergency rooms, researchers have found. Each year about 3000 people die and 65,000 are taken to hospital in Australia because of alcohol abuse, the Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation (AER) says. Drunk, speeding driver causes deathA MELBOURNE woman, 23, was driving unlicensed and several times over the legal blood alcohol limit when she killed a pedestrian, a court has heard. Opposition calls for Victorian liquor trade bansPUBS and nightclubs that serve alcohol to minors or drunks would be shut down for up to 28 days under a radical proposal by the state Liberal-Nationals Coalition. Arrests won't end drunken violence: police VICTORIA'S police chief says his force cannot arrest its way out of alcohol-fuelled violence, with the state recording a jump in assaults over a year. The Age November 27 2009 | Read News Article Brisbane nightclubs to introduce fingerprint scanning PATRONS at some of Brisbane's top nightspots will be forced to have their fingerprints scanned before entering clubs. The Australian November 25 2009 | Read News Article
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