Covid-19 UK: Alcohol deaths reach record levels after lockdown drove binge drinking at home dailymail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailymail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Current laws only require firms to show the strength of alcohol, allergens and the container’s volume. Any other information, such as ingredients and calorie content is optional – setting it apart from the food and soft drinks industries. Campaigners believe this is wrong for a product that causes 10 deaths every day in Scotland.
READ MORE: New research carried out for Alcohol Focus Scotland found that just 23 per cent of Scots were aware of the recommended, maximum number of alcohol units (14) while only a quarter knew how many calories were in the average pint of beer. It is unacceptable that a product linked to 10 deaths a day in Scotland continues to be exempt from laws
WHO/Europe | An adapted alcohol screening test will help to fight health harms in the Russian Federation and beyond who.int - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from who.int Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
1 July 2021, 09:00–12:15 CEST (10:00–13:15 MSK) (virtual)
An online meeting organized by the WHO Country Office for the Russian Federation and the WHO European Office for the Prevention and Control of NCDs will present the outcomes of the project on adaptation and validation of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) in the Russian Federation.
The AUDIT was developed by WHO as a practical instrument to screen for alcohol use disorders and to help healthcare workers to identify individuals who would benefit from reducing their alcohol use or quitting drinking altogether. It has become the most widely used screening instrument for alcohol worldwide and was translated into many languages and adapted for different countries, but a Russia-specific country version was lacking so far. The newly available Russian version of the AUDIT – the RUS-AUDIT – represents a short 10-question form that is adapted to assess specific alcohol use patterns and problems identified in
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