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Findings from a new University of Otago, Christchurch, study suggest alcohol harm is becoming more prevalent among older New Zealanders but less so for youth, with alcohol-related presentations placing a significant but preventable burden on the motu’s over-stretched hospital emergency departments
Why are we drinking so much? The study by doctor Laura Joyce illustrates a doubling of emergency department presentations with excess alcohol , from 5 per...
The number of patients with alcohol-related injuries visiting one of New Zealand’s busiest hospital emergency departments has more than doubled...
Findings from a new University of Otago, Christchurch, study suggest alcohol harm is becoming more prevalent among older New Zealanders but less so for youth.
The number of young drinkers dropped from one in three in 2013 to under one in five in 2022.