Five good reasons for raising the drinking ageThe Croakey debate about raising the legal drinking age heats up, with Dr Tanya Chikritzhs highlighting a range of studies that suggest it could prevent thousands of deaths and serious injuries.
Alcohol related problems
When Australians drink like Russians, it’s time for action
Crikey / Wednesday, 23 September 2009
Pointing the finger elsewhere is no longer an option on alcohol policy, writes Michael Moore. Even Russia has declared a major campaign on curbing alcohol-related harm.
Northern Territory in the grip of the grog?
Crikey / Thursday, 8 January 2009
To call for some reduction in the worst excesses of grog-fuelled, anti-social behaviour is to risk being branded a wowser, and ‘un-Territorian’, writes Graham Ring.
Booze is not just a black issue
Crikey / Monday, 9 July 2007
I do not agree with what the PM has done in the Territory’s Aboriginal communities, nor did most of the Aboriginal health workers I was with last week in western NSW, writes Dr Rod MacQueen, an addiction medicine physician who works in indigenous communities.
