9 h. ago Drinking alcohol the night before a morning drive puts lives at risk, motorists warned

More than a fifth of motorists have drunk alcohol after 10pm when needing to drive before 9am the following morning

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9 h. ago More than a fifth of UK drivers admit drinking alcohol after 10pm before morning drive

Anyone who drinks that late could still have alcohol in their system early the following morning

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19 h. ago Behavioural psychologist reveals what your car maintenance routine says about you

A poll of 2,000 drivers found 35 percent admit to treating their vehicle 'like a baby', with some banning the slamming of doors and muddy clothes and shoes

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3 d. ago Scientists reveal what really happens to your body when you stop drinking

Katinka van de Ven and Nicole Lee explain how the body recovers after removing alcohol from your life

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6 d. ago Britain's worst drink driver had enough alcohol in his system to have put him in a COMA

The highest reading for someone convicted of drink driving between 2015-2024 was a 39-year-old male who registered a reading of 513mg/dL (milligrams per decilitre).

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8 d. ago Driver warning as one act towards cyclists could see you slapped with £1,000 fine

Many drivers admit that they don't check the Highway Code – or any new changes – once they pass their tests, which could leave some out of pocket with rules being added

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9 d. ago Bid to lift 'football booze ban' rejected despite MP's call to 'end the nanny state'

Football fans have been banned from drinking alcohol in view of the pitch in the top five tiers of the men's game in England for the last 40 years. MP Louie French said it "made sense in the 1980s" but doesn't now

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1 week ago 'I started one habit to avoid drinking too much and it cost me my teeth'

Victoria feared she was drinking too much alcohol and didn't like the effects, but the alternative was just as bad

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1 week ago I'm a sober alcoholic. Here's what happened when I got 'tipsy' during a night drinking Gaba

As a teetotaller of 30 years, Kate Mulvey was amazed by what happened when she tried a drink which claims to mimic the effects of alcohol

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1 week ago Government considers cancer warnings on alcohol as NHS plan targets drink

A ten-year plan for the NHS recommends introducing warning labels on alcohol products

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2 w. ago In a country where alcohol is banned, Pakistan’s top brewery has to make changes

Pakistan's top brewery has healthy financials despite an alcohol ban for Muslims in the Islamic country

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2 w. ago In a country where alcohol is banned, Pakistan’s top brewery is betting on soft drinks

Pakistan's top brewery has healthy financials despite an alcohol ban for Muslims in the Islamic country

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2 w. ago UK tops all other countries in Europe for boozing with one key reason why people drink

A new survey has found that the UK has the highest number of people who drink alcohol at least once a week than any other country in Europe, with one key reason why people drink emerging

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2 w. ago GP reveals exact number of drinks it takes for most people to feel hungover...and drunk

Just one alcoholic drink a day raises the risk of more than a dozen health conditions-but for most people its not enough to cause a hangover.

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2 w. ago Huge fines to be handed out in popular stag do spot in crackdown on bad behaviour

Wearing bikinis or swimwear outside beach or pool zones, drinking alcohol in the street and urinating in public will all be punished with fines

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2 w. ago Voices: Putting cancer warnings on alcohol would help me drink less

We’ve already got traffic lights on ready meals and calorie counts on restaurant menus, so why not a skull and crossbones on bottle of wines, says Flic Everett

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3 w. ago Parents introducing teens to alcohol at home are 'doing lasting harm'

Community Alcohol Partnerships report says giving alcohol to teens at home does not teach them to drink responsibly as Government plans to tackle booze advertising

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3 w. ago I wish I had known more about alcohol when I started drinking | Arwa Mahdawi

It seems a sensible move to use explicit warning labels on products. What I’m more sceptical about is the ‘No amount of alcohol is safe for you’ messaging ...You’re going to want to sit down with a big glass of water for this one, because I’m afraid I have some bad news. Here we go: alcohol is not terribly good for you. Shocker, right? You’ve probably never heard anything like this before in your life. No doubt, you’ve been choking down a glass of pinot with dinner whenever you can stomach it because you thought it was good for your cholesterol. Instead, it is elevating your risk of cancer.If public health experts have their way, the fact that alcohol is carcinogenic is going to be very hard for British drinkers to ignore. Dozens of medical and health organisations recently wrote to Keir Starmer urging the prime minister to force companies to include “bold and unambiguous” labels on booze bottles, warning that alcohol causes cancer. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago At 35, I knew I was drinking too much. Then a miracle treatment finally helped me stop at 'just one or two'

There's a saying about alcohol: you know it's a problem when it takes more from you than it gives. But not everyone who reaches that point is an alcoholic - far from it.

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3 w. ago Alcohol should have labels warning drinkers of cancer risks, charities say

Health organisations have written to Keir Starmer urging him to force drinks producers to include warningsCans and bottles of beer, wine and spirits should explicitly warn drinkers that alcohol causes cancer, an unprecedented alliance of doctors, charities and public experts have said.Warning labels would tackle “shockingly low” public awareness in the UK that alcohol is proven to cause seven forms of cancer and 17,000 cases a year of the disease, they claim. Continue reading...

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