alcohol

Lynette Bullen has spent her career in health, dedicating her efforts towards families trying to overcome drug and alcohol addiction. 

We need to educate the community on the link between alcohol and sexual violence, and it starts with the courts sending a clear message about consent.

Men and women often drink alcohol differently. This is especially the case for women who juggle both paid work and motherhood.

Young women have been drinking more and their use of illicit drugs is on par with young men for the first time since national records began.

Women in parliament still aren’t safe. Mandatory alcohol and drug testing isn’t the long-term fix, but it could be enough in the short term.

Albanese was quick to bat down the idea of random testing, saying politicians should instead aspire to act “responsibly at all times”.

Companies like Glenlivet need to acknowledge that harmful advertising is part of a big proble facing Australian women.

In Australia, its estimated that up to 1 in 10 breast cancer diagnoses are related to drinking, which is around 2,000 women each year.

As we’ve seen in our Dry July series this month, the Australian liquor industry is anything but what we used to consider ‘the norm’.

Young women are three times more likely than men of the same age to experience blackouts caused by excess drinking.

In Australia, alcohol is so engrained into so many aspects of our lives. After work drinks on a Friday, cocktails by the pool on Saturday.