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Kicked for touch: ABs' Instagram posts broke alcohol advertising rules

Photos posted on Instagram can now be considered alcohol advertising, board says.

Editorial: We're still too keen on 'one for the road'

EDITORIAL: We all need to consider modifying our drink-driving attitudes and behaviour.

DHB urges crack down on booze to lessen misery from 'addictive psychotropic drug'

Winegrowers feel they are wrongly being treated like tobacco merchants.

Kiwi booze will have to carry pregnancy warning labels

Australia-NZ Ministerial Forum votes in favour of mandatory warning labels for alcohol

Calls to restrict alcohol marketing around children

Kiwi children exposed to alcohol ads nearly 5 times a day

Drinking while pregnant like 'Russian roulette'

Almost quarter of Kiwi women drink during their first trimester of pregnancy.

Study: Drinking culture leads to ER

Experts say our problem with binge-drinking is to blame.

Teen drinking leads to adulthood alcohol problems: Study

Substance abuse in adulthood has been connected to frequent teen drinking.

Light drinkers have lower risk of getting cancer than non-drinkers

A few drinks a week could be better for you than not drinking at all, new study suggests.

Claims Uber driver bought teens booze

A set of Auckland parents have been left fuming after allegations an Uber driver bought alcohol for a 15-year-old on his way to a

Boozy Aucklanders most likely to be hospitalised

Aucklanders aged between 60 and 64 are a shocking 107 per cent more likely to be hospitalised for alcohol-related harm than people in any other part of the country.

Teen's drink death: Parents forgiveness

The mother of a 17-year-old boy who died after drinking heavily says she has no resentment towards his older friend who supplied him alcohol.

Auckland may join booze-ad ban

Auckland Council may follow the example of its transport arm and ban the advertising of alcohol on its land and buildings.

'Intervention' for NZ's worst drink driver

The country's worst drink driver has undergone a lengthy prison rehabilitation programme aimed at stopping him offending again upon his release next month.

MPs consider law change to lower drink driving limit

MPs at a select committee are considering a law change that would lower the drink driving limit from 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood to 50mg.

More beer and wine on shelves

Rising economic confidence and "aggressive" marketing techniques are seen as the driving factors behind an 8.9 million litre rise in alcohol availability last year.

Verity Johnson: Navigating the line between party and paralytic requires maturity

As a teenager, there is a huge pressure to accept the cool pragmatism of "this is how it is" when it comes to binge drinking, writes Verity Johnson.

Shelley Bridgeman: Are you 'almost alcoholic'?

Some experts claim that there may be an entire spectrum of possibilities that lie between the non-alcoholic and the alcoholic state.