Just like illegal tobacco,a huge substitution racket is flourishing. Dangerous industrial alcohol is being blended into top-shelf spirits – and police are worried.
A number of drink-driving acquittals have resulted from a rare condition known as auto-brewery syndrome,in which a person’s gut effectively brews alcohol inside the body.
Inflation for most goods and services has been falling since late 2022,but the price of beer has risen at its fastest rate in decades.
Deaths caused by alcohol have reached their highest rate in a decade,according to a new report that calls on the federal government to do more to protect Australians from the harms of excessive drinking.
A sharp decline in alcohol consumption among risk-averse young adults is undermining the live music scene,which has long relied on the sale of booze.
Prisoners across the state will now have access to treatment for drug and alcohol issues immediately after arrest under a new $2.5 million intervention pilot.
When you look at damage done by drugs to footballers,does cocaine even begin to compare to the damage done by alcohol?
As Brisbane prepares to invite the world to our city in 2032,perhaps we should be a little more relaxed in our hardline approach to drinking,and treat adults like adults.
Giving up alcohol can shift the dynamics in a relationship. Here’s how to navigate that change.
They’re calling it The Next Big Dry – young Australian travellers overseas turning their back on alcohol-fuelled partying and instead opting for high sobriety.
Lying in the gutter is a shameful badge of office and most Australians now want federal MPs to be subject to random drug and alcohol tests.