Category Archives: alcohol

Alex Wodak’s plea to the Senate on the alcopops tax

March 12, 2009 – 10:27 am

Dr Alex Wodak from St. Vincent’s Hospital Sydney writes:
Apart from the alcohol beverage industry, most people in Australia need little convincing that our favourite drug causes us a lot of trouble. Each year alcohol causes thousands of deaths, fills many hospital beds, results in many alcohol-fuelled violent rampages and cost our economy many billions of [...]

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Should alcohol advertising be banned? Public health experts reply

December 5, 2008 – 8:54 am

A senior scientist, Professor Michael Good, has called for a ban on alcohol advertising. It’s a significant call, especially considering the clout that Good wields, as head of the QIMR, chair of the NHMRC, and co-chair of the health stream at the 2020 Summit (although it should be pointed out that he made the call [...]

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The debate continues: is binge drinking campaign a backward step?

December 1, 2008 – 9:45 am

Geoff Munro, National Policy Manager at the Australian Drug Foundation, responds to a previous post by Dr Alex Wodak:
“Alex Wodak rightly points out that media campaigns do not in themselves change much behavior directly, so we cannot expect the binge drinking campaign to have a big effect.
It is hardly fair though, to characterize the campaign [...]

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Is the new binge drinking campaign a backward step?

November 24, 2008 – 10:57 am

Dr Alex Wodak, Director, Alcohol and Drug Service, at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, says so:
“The Federal government’s recently announced national media campaign to reduce high risk drinking among young people is a backward step. Like many previous similar campaigns, we are promised that this education campaign will be part of a comprehensive package. Judging [...]

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