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Tag: Binge Drinking

  • Non-drinkers Use An Array of Methods to Avoid Alcohol at Work Events

    Many workers feel pressurised to drink when at a work party, simply because everyone else is. The pressure to fit in doesn’t stop in high school in fact it can get worse for some people.

    For someone who doesn’t drink or for those avoiding alcohol for whatever reason, there are a number of “Tricks” used to avoid alcohol.

    From being the designated driver to pretending they are trying to lose weight, a study found workers use a variety of excuses because they don’t want to be seen as a condescending non-drinker or a stick-in-the-mud.

    If you’re the one doing the drinking, don’t intimidate others or force them to drink. Read more about the study here.

  • Average Number of Drinks Men and Women Have at Every Age, Charted

    According to new research published in the journal BMC Medicine, the chart above is an illustration of what life looks like in terms of how much we drink.

    As the chart shows frequent drinking becomes more common around the age of 25 for men, at which stage they consume around 13 drinks a week on average. Women tend to drink considerably less.

    Read more about the findings here.

  • Some Alcohol Calorie Facts You Didn’t Know

     

    • A standard glass of wine has the same amount of calories as a piece of chocolate or four cookies.
    • A pint of lager has the same number of calories as a whole packet of crisps or a slice of pizza.
    • In The United States the average wine drinker takes around 2,000 kilo calories from alcohol every month.
    • Because alcohol is made from fermented sugar and starch, high on alcohol translates to being high in sugar and high in calories.

    See more eye-opening calorie facts here.

  • Kings Cross Operators Banned for Life After Repeated Breaches

    The former operators of Kings Cross bar, Déjà vu have been banned from holding liquor licences for life after committing repeated breaches of the Liquor Act.

    One of the breaches committed involved serving alcohol to minors.

    This serves as a cautionary tale to other liquor licensees about the importance of Responsible Service of Alcohol training.

    Read the full story here.

  • Why is Binge Drinking so Common in Young Adults

    When serving alcohol it is important to recognise the importance of serving responsibly especially keeping in mind that young people should always be asked to prove that they are of a legal drinking age before being served alcohol.

    Young people tend to be more prone to binge drinking and the consequences that come with it. Trying to understand why young people are more prone to binge drinking is the subject of a post on New York Times website.

    In The USA people need to be 21 years or older to drink, yet young people in this country binge drink at alarming levels, particularly high school and college students.

    In Australia we have Responsible Service of Alcohol rules in place which aim to tackle this alarming behaviour by young people.

    Read more about it here.

     

  • Suburban Brisbane Pubs Apply for 3am Liquor Licence

    A number of suburban Brisbane pubs have recently applied to have their trading hours extended to 3am. Currently the venues latest trading hours are between midnight to 2:00am.

    The Australian Leisure and Hospitality Group (ALH) on behalf of a number of its venues (Oxford 152, the Holland Park Hotel, Stones Corner Hotel, Belmont Tavern, the Australian National Hotel, Sunnybank Hotel and the Mt Gravatt Hotel), has applied to the Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation (OLGR) to extend trading hours to 3am.

     

    Read more here.

  • ABS Says Australian Alcohol Consumption at 50 Year Low

    According to The Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian drinking rates are at their lowest in 50 years.

    They revealed that there were 9.7 litres of pure alcohol available for consumption for every Australian aged 15 years and over in 2013-14 – the equivalent of 2.1 standard drinks per person per day.

    See more here.

  • AHA Rejects Annual FARE Alcohol Consumption Poll

     

    FARE recently released its annual alcohol consumption poll claiming that 75 per cent of Australians believe that the nation has a problem with alcohol abuse.

    The Australian Hotels Association (WA) have rejected the findings. Its CEO Bradley Woods says that there are problems with the poll’s distribution of respondents. What do you think?

    Read more here.

  • 276 Billion Litres of Alcohol Downed by 2019 – Euromonitor

     

    Euromonitor, a market research company has predicted that in Australia, total alcoholic drinks volume is up 0.2 per cent in 2014, representing 2.8 billion litres of alcohol.

    Some of the other findings include:

    • People around the world are also switching to brown spirits rather than white spirits.
    • In the world of beer, craft beer’s consumption is growing globally.
    • Euromonitor thinks the alcoholic drinks industry will reach 276 billion litres by 2019.

    Source: Hospitality Magazine

     

     

     

  • ALSA Responds to Underage Service Claim

    Part of Responsible Service of Alcohol means not serving or selling alcohol to minors and asking for IDs to prove that customers are the age they say.

    Yet a professor at Curtin University claims that at least half of young people find it easy to buy alcohol. He was speaking on ABC’s Radio National.

    Professor Mike Daube said some retailers are responsible when it comes to selling alcohol to minors, but many are not. He also called for the government to act.

    ALSA has refuted these claims and says that data suggests otherwise.

    Read more about it here.