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Beer Toppling Vodka’s Reign (Washington Post, 10/14/02) From: Miles Townes Date: 10/14/2002 Time: 1:28:13 PM Remote Name: 151.200.244.45 Comments http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21952-2002Oct13.html Beer Toppling Vodka’s Reign New, Better Brews Catch On in Russia, Especially Among Younger People Russian youths toast during Moscow’s second beer festival in the capital’s Luzhniki stadium. Beer is becoming more and more popular…

Research – Scope of Problem   Powdered Alcohol: An Encapsulation (updated July 2015) http://www.nabca.org/assets/Docs/Research/PowderedAlcoholPaper.pdf Powdered Alcohol Products – New Challenge in an Era of Needed Regulation http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2336816 JAMA. Published online June 15, 2015. doi:10.1001/jama.2015.6450In March 2015, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) approved several powdered alcohol products, sold under the brand name…

Research – Alcohol Energy Drinks   A Comparison of the Combined-Use of Alcohol & Energy Drinks to Alcohol-Only on High-Risk Drinking and Driving Behaviors http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/10826084.2014.935948 Substance Use & Misuse, January 2015, Vol. 50, No. 1 , Pages 1-7The combined-use of alcohol and energy drinks is an emerging public health issue. Researchers examined differences in drinking…

Impaired Driving   DUI Foundation – Educate and Prevent http://www.duifoundation.org/ Driving under the influence of alcohol and other impairing substances is an epidemic in our society that doesn’t appear to be going away in the near future. Effectiveness of Social Host and Fake Identification Laws on Reducing Underage Drinking Driver Fatal Crashes http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25307400 Traffic Injury…

SUCCESS STORY: IllinoisThe University of Illinois Collaborates with Law Enforcement and Community on Underage Drinking during Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day What do thousands of college students do when their spring break comes at the same time as St Patrick’s Day? They create their own celebration event. Since 1996 the cities of Champaign and Urbana Illinois…

Comments http://www.who.int/whr/2002/chapter4/en/index6.html Excerpt from the WHO World Health Report 2002: “Reducing risks, promoting healthy life” Alcohol use Alcohol has been consumed in human populations for millennia, but the considerable and varied adverse health effects, as well as some benefits, have only been characterized recently (39 ,40 ). Alcohol consumption has health and social consequences via…