EditorialOver the past 10 days Australians have seen mainstream media focus in on alcohol problems, kicking off with A Current Affair’s piece Blind Drunk about young people and alcohol-related harms, followed by The Conversation‘s week-long series on alcohol this week, and Monday night’s Four Corners episode ‘Punch Drunk‘.
Dozens of concerned community members, emergency services workers, journalists, politicians, and police joined the Twitter discussion during the airing of ‘Punch Drunk’, with many questioning the alcohol industry’s influence on governments, calling for an evidence-based approach to alcohol policy reform in Australia. To find out what people had to say, and how you can help put pressure on governments to act, check out FARE’s Storify overview here.
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Punch Drunk
Australians love a drink, and some see no problem at all with drinking to excess. But now doctors, police and paramedics have called “time”, warning that alcohol-fueled violence has reached crisis levels.
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Blind drunk
It’s the Aussie alcohol epidemic. Watch these young pre-loaders who are drunk out of their mind before they’ve even hit the pub.
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