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alcohol stories: 208 news summaries

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 Alcohol Good  
 for Men's Hearts 

Daily drinking reduces disease risk by more than a third, says study

Nov 19, 09 10:59 AM CST
(Newser) - Drink up boys, it’s good for you—or for your heart at least, says a new study. Drinking cut heart disease risk by 35% to 50% in the survey conducted in Spain. It followed 15,500 men and 26,000 women, and found that daily heavy drinking did wonders... More »

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alcohol • heart disease • drinking • health study

WOULD-BE FIRST KIDS

 Alexandra Kerry 
 Charged With DUI 

Alexandra Kerry booked and released, was under legal limit

Nov 19, 09 10:27 AM CST
(Newser) - John Kerry’s daughter was arrested this morning in California in a suspected DUI. Alexandra Kerry was pulled over at 12:40am, and refused to take a preliminary alcohol screening test after her field sobriety test, police sources tell TMZ . Though her blood alcohol level was ultimately found to be... More »

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alcohol • John Kerry • DUI • Alexandra Kerry • Alexandra Kerry DUI

FDA Demands Safety Data on Energy Drinks With Alcohol

Companies have 30 days to comply

Nov 13, 09 6:20 PM CST
(Newser) - The FDA has taken action against companies that make alcoholic energy drinks, giving the firms 30 days to provide evidence to support their claim that caffeine and booze are a safe combination. A group of concerned scientists have said there is no evidence to support the claim that the drinks... More »

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FDA • alcohol • caffeine • energy drink • Smirnoff • Diageo • MillerCoors • Anheuser-Busch • Food and Drug Administration • Constellation Brands • Wide Eye

 Beer Gets Boozier 

States allow drinks up to 16% alcohol to be called beers

Nov 4, 09 2:33 PM CST
(Newser) - States are raising caps on the alcohol content of beer, setting limits as high as 16% by volume in moves to appease the microbrew industry. Alabama and West Virginia raised their limits this year, while Vermont and Montana adjusted theirs last year; and lobbying is under way in Iowa and... More »

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Iowa • alcohol • Montana • Vermont • beer • Mississippi

WHAT DUIS?

 Kiefer Racks Up 
 $700 Bar Tab 
 —by 1pm  

Sutherland treats 30 people to drinks starting at 7am

Nov 3, 09 8:02 AM CST
(Newser) - Oh, to be a celebrity. Kiefer Sutherland recently racked up a $700 bar tab in just one morning—yes, morning. After wrapping up a recent 24 shoot, Sutherland and the crew hit a California bar, where he bought drinks for all 30 people in the establishment from 7am to 1pm.... More »

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entertainment • alcohol • DUI • celebrity • Kiefer Sutherland

(Newser) - People tend to be picky about beer, so "psychographic" research firm Mindset Media conducted surveys to match brands to personality trends. Here's what researchers found, according to Ad Age :
  • Budweiser: Sensible and practical drinkers, but with an anti-authoritarian streak.
  • Bud Light: Unlike regular Budweiser fans, these imbibers
... More »

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alcohol • beer • Budweiser • Heineken • light beer • Bud Light • Blue Moon

Americans Skip Bar, Buy Booze at Grocery Store

Sales of beer, wine surge at convenience shops, drug stores

Oct 29, 09 5:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Recession-strapped Americans are hitting the bar less and less, but they’re not giving up drinking: sales of beer and wine at grocery and convenience stores have ballooned, prompting many shops to start offering alcohol. Between September 2008 and last month, the number of stores selling beer shot up by... More »

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alcohol • beer • drinks • Walgreens • grocery stores

GEORGE F. WILL

 Drug Czar Needs 
 to Look Beyond 
 Worthless Laws  


Enforcement doesn't work, but there is hope elsewhere

Oct 29, 09 10:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a chat with new czar Gil Kerlikowske, George Will notes that the war on drugs, as it has been waged, is an utter failure. Harsh drug laws have done nothing to reduce drug-taking, he writes, and incarcerating drug users is looking more and more wasteful to strapped states. “... More »

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War on Drugs • alcohol • DEA • Drug Enforcement Administration • George Will • Office of National Drug Control Policy • Obama administration • Gil Kerlikowske

david sirota

Drug Policy Hypocrisy:
Hero Lance Is Selling Beer

And yet Phelps is vilified for smoking pot

Oct 24, 09 2:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Phelps smokes a bong at a private party and becomes Public Enemy No. 1. Lance Armstrong signs a deal to hawk beer for Anheuser-Busch and—nothing. Therein lies a lesson about our nation's "absurd drug policy," writes David Sirota. Alcohol is the demonstrably more dangerous drug, yet... More »

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Michael Phelps • alcohol • beer • marijuana • marijuana legalization • Lance Armstrong

Survivor: Days of Fasting Before Sweat Lodge Disaster

Self-help guru James Arthur Ray ignored pleas to help those collapsing

Oct 21, 09 7:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Participants in the fatal Oct. 8 sweat-lodge ceremony had already been through five days of fasting and sleep deprivation, a survivor says—and the self-help guru leading the proceedings saw their gasping, vomiting and fainting as signs of weakness and urged them to push on through it. No charges have... More »

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drugs • alcohol • Arizona • sleep deprivation • fasting • James Arthur Ray • sweat lodge • Sedona • Angel Valley Retreat Center • Beverley Bunn • sweat lodge survivor

what to drink

 Don't Fear Sweet Wines 

US makes some terrific examples

Oct 17, 09 1:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Americans shy away from sweet wines, and it's a shame, write Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher in their Wall Street Journal column. Times have changed, and some fine US bottles are out there. Some of their favorites:
  • Hermann J. Wiemer Vineyard Bunch Select Late Harvest Riesling 2006: 
... More »

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alcohol • wine • wine tasting

 Nolte's Son Busted in DUI 

Brawley nabbed after California accident

Oct 8, 09 2:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Like father, like son. Nick Nolte's son Brawley has been busted in Santa Monica on suspicion of driving under the influence and possession of a controlled substance, according to cops. The 23-year-old sometimes-actor, who played Mel Gibson's son in Ransom, was nabbed after an accident on the Pacific Highway and... More »

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California • drugs • alcohol • DUI • actor • Nick Nolte • Brawley Nolte • Pacific Highway

At Aussie Auto Race, Fans Allowed Just 24 Beers a Day

Limit jumps to 36 light brews for 4-day Bathurst 1,000

Oct 7, 09 6:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fans headed to a four-day event that’s a highlight of the Australian auto-racing calendar will only be allowed one case of beer per day—or 36 cans if it’s light beer. “Wine lovers have not escaped the heavy hand of the law either,” the Guardian notes... More »

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Australia • alcohol • wine • beer • binge drinking • auto racing • light beer • Bathurst 1,000

 Toxic Booze 
 Kills 40 Ugandans 

Victims of adulterated spirits include much-loved radio host

Sep 25, 09 3:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Toxic alcohol has killed at least 40 drinkers in the last month in the the African party capital of Kampala, where all-night bars sell cheap spirits. Among the victims who suffered sudden blindness followed by organ failure was one of the country's best-loved media personalities, lonely-hearts radio host DJ ... More »

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Africa • alcohol • Uganda • Kampala • poisoning

 Cabbies Ask for Vomit Penalty 

Chicago drivers want messy drunks to pay $50

Sep 24, 09 3:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Chicago cab drivers want drunk passengers who vomit in their cars to pay a $50 fine. Drivers today asked the city for the penalty along with an overall rate increase of 22%. Chicago cabbies are among the lowest paid in the country, with wages averaging $4.38 an hour over... More »

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Chicago • alcohol • taxi • Illinois • transportation • vomiting

OPINION

 Hofstra Gang Rape Wasn't 
 Rape—but It Wasn't OK 

Drunken sexual encounters trivialize the problem of real rape

Sep 22, 09 12:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - It’s clear now that the alleged Hofstra gang rape in a campus bathroom—in which a young woman said 5 guys tied her to a stall and attacked her—was not rape, by any legal definition. Confronted with a cell phone video, the woman recanted within 72 hours, admitting... More »

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feminism • alcohol • college student • false accusations • legal action • Hofstra University • date rape

 All-Time Best 
 TV and Movie Drunks 

Norm, Frank the Tank make the list

Sep 19, 09 11:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Everyone likes a funny drunk, right? Barstools lists the most lovable movie and TV boozehounds of all time:
  • Who comes to mind first? Norm Peterson from Cheers, of course. "The crowd shouted 'Norm' every time he walked through the door to belly up to the bar."
... More »

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entertainment • television • alcohol • alcoholism • The Office • sitcom • Charlie Chaplin • Will and Grace • Will Ferrell • movies • drunk • Billy Bob Thornton • John Belushi • Cheers • Animal House • Old School

Guinness Heiress In Court for Drunken Striptease on Plane

'Cavorted' with passenger, threw child's dirty diaper, testify witnesses

Sep 15, 09 6:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - A descendant of the Guinness brewing family got so drunk on a long flight that she "cavorted" with a male passenger, took off her skirt, and threw her son’s dirty diaper into a row of seats, observers say. A flight attendant said “she had absolutely no clue... More »

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alcohol • heiress • diaper • stripping • Guinness • drunk • socialite

 Pick Your Poison: 
 Swine Flu or Hand Sanitizer 

Recent H1N1-inspired flood of alcohol-based products into schools are also flammable

Sep 14, 09 12:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Schools are loading up on hand sanitizer in an effort to fight swine flu—but the alcohol-based panacea has problems of its own, the Chicago Tribune reports. Bottles and dispensers of the stuff are ubiquitous in classrooms, and officials have belatedly realized the dangers of its 65% alcohol content.... More »

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education • alcohol • pandemic • drunkenness • schoolchildren • swine flu • H1N1 virus • hand sanitizer • Purell • flammable

Alleged Beer Thief Won't Go to Jail Before Finishing Drink

Now faces charges of shoplifting and battery

Sep 11, 09 12:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Florida man who wanted to go to jail for "three hots and a cot" walked into a store, grabbed a beer, and told the clerk to "call the law" because he had no money. All went according to plan until the deputy who responded tried to... More »

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alcohol • theft • beer • jail • stealing • store

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