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34% percent of polled Australian women drank alcohol during their last pregnancy - 32% plan on drinking during their next one.

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52% of French women, as compared to only 12% of American women, admit to drinking during pregnancy.

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Angry about tax increases on alcohol, pub owners across Britain are joining together to ban entry to the man they hold responsible.

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Rising crime and alcoholic desperation have put Church Iconography at risk. Russian police admit that they can't help, and ask priests to start carrying guns.

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Thieves in the UK may soon be serving community sentences, as long as they can prove that they were robbing out of "desperation".

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Citing increasing liver disease, breast cancer and obesity, the British Health Ministry revealed plans for an advertising campaign - warning against big glasses of wine.

The newly elected Thai govt. has said they will restart the efforts of 2003's controversial war on drugs.

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• War on Drugs: Global Commission on Drug Policy Report Calls Drug War a Failure

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Australian police are cracking down on drunk driving...but they're not staying up all night to do it.

• Police Arrest Same Man for DUI Twice in 3 Hours
• Police Hold Disabled Man on Suspicion of DUI. Suspicious Behaviors Actually a Result of Brain Injury, Not Intoxication

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Heroin killed 28 in Dublin last year - Methadone 31. Is the cure worse than the disease?

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• Former Meth Users Can Regain Impulse Control; After About a Year of Abstinence