More than a third (37%) of Australian teenagers surveyed had tried zero alcohol products. In focus group discussions, some participants identified that zero alcohol products could act as a gateway ...

A new study published in the journal Neurology has found that drinking alcohol, even in relatively moderate amounts, ...

"When you're young, particularly between 12 and 25, your brain is growing and developing," Professor Hickie says. He says drinking alcohol as a teenager impacts the front part of the brain, which is ...

The Australian government has bowed to drinks industry pressure by announcing tax relief for the country’s distillers, brewers and wine producers. In a statement announcing the move on Saturday ...

Researchers from The University of Western Australia have found medications used to treat alcohol use disorders are severely underutilized in Australia. Ph.D. candidate Ebony Quintrell, from UWA's ...

VIENTIANE, Laos — An Australian teenager and a British woman have died after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos in what Australia’s prime minister on Thursday said was every parent’s nightmare.

A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died in a hospital in Bangkok, her family said Friday, bringing the death toll in the mass poisoning ...

A second Australian woman hospitalised after drinking contaminated alcohol in a popular tourist town in Laos has died, the government said on Friday, the sixth fatality from suspected methanol ...