Statistics support closing bars earlier, says alcohol harm expert
A man was arrested, charged with intent to injure with reckless disregard and is due to appear in Palmerston North District Court next week, a police media spokesman said. While there is debate if the change would reduce the harm, Professor Emerita Jennie Connor from the University of Otago, an expert in alcohol harm, said the change would work. Supplied In Addiction, a study of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012, Connor looked at the effect of the 4am closing law. It showed an 11 per cent drop in weekend hospitalised assaults across the country, however, only a handful of premise...
Source: stuff.co.nz
