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Law
fromIndependent
3 hours ago

Alcoholic lied about heart attack and cancer and subjected ex-partner to campaign of abuse and violence

A chronic alcoholic has been sentenced to two years for 18 months of abusive and controlling behavior towards his partner.
Cocktails
fromIndependent
2 days ago

The shocking teen drinking stat most of us don't know: Why we should teach our children not to drink alcohol

Teaching moderation early does not lead to higher success rates for teens.
France news
fromEsquire
22 hours ago

Mississippi's Solution to Its Problems? Privatize Everything!

An 86-year-old French woman is detained in Louisiana after immigrating to marry her wartime sweetheart, raising concerns for her health.
Privacy technologies
fromBoston.com
2 days ago

Healey proposes bill to limit time young people can spend on social media

Healey's bill mandates age verification and restricts features on social media for users under 18 to combat mental health issues.
Canada news
fromwww.cbc.ca
2 days ago

Ontario expanding open alcohol consumption in provincial parks | CBC News

Ontarians can now drink alcohol in more areas of provincial parks, expanding the Ford government's relaxed alcohol regulations.
California
fromSan Jose Spotlight
6 days ago

Mountain View could allow public drinking in downtown - San Jose Spotlight

Mountain View plans to create an entertainment zone for open alcohol consumption during city events, starting with the World Cup this summer.
Public health
fromCity Limits
6 days ago

Opinion: Excise Taxes Can Help Fund Needed Addiction Treatment in NY

New York's alcohol sales generate $12 billion annually but do not address related health issues.
#massachusetts
Boston
fromBoston.com
1 week ago

Mass. House passes bill restricting teen social media and phones in schools

A Massachusetts bill bans social media for children under 14 and requires parental consent for 14- and 15-year-olds, along with a cellphone ban in schools.
NYC parents
fromBoston.com
1 week ago

Mass. House to vote on youth social media ban, strict school cellphone ban

Massachusetts lawmakers are advancing legislation to ban social media for children under 14 and restrict cellphone use in schools.
#gambling-reform
fromReadWrite
1 week ago
Poker

Australia gambling ads reform draws sharp criticism

Australia is implementing reforms to reduce gambling ads, aiming to protect children and address public health concerns related to gambling.
fromReadWrite
3 weeks ago
UK politics

Australia gambling reform delay sparks youth harm fears

Public health advocates demand urgent government action on gambling reform to protect young Australians from harm and advertising exposure.
UK politics
fromReadWrite
3 weeks ago

Australia gambling reform delay sparks youth harm fears

Public health advocates demand urgent government action on gambling reform to protect young Australians from harm and advertising exposure.
US news
fromwww.npr.org
1 week ago

More teens are getting hooked on gambling. Parents say it often goes undetected

Gambling addiction among boys is rising, with 36% of U.S. boys aged 11 to 17 having gambled in the past year.
California
fromSFGATE
1 week ago

Minors allegedly break into Bay Area movie theater for booze-fueled party

Nearly 100 minors were detained for trespassing at an abandoned San Jose movie theater while carrying alcohol and playing loud music.
Higher education
fromwww.berkeleyside.org
2 weeks ago

This new California law will offer college students rehab before discipline for overdosing

California college students will have more protections and resources when experiencing an overdose starting July 2025.
fromwww.bbc.com
2 weeks ago

Two teen girls arrested after street disturbance

Officers were called to Clapham High Street on Tuesday evening and put a dispersal order in place to move the young people out of the area.
London politics
#bullying
NYC parents
fromLos Angeles Times
2 weeks ago

Minor arrested in death of 12-year-old L.A. student hit by water bottle

A juvenile was arrested for the murder of 12-year-old Khimberly Zavaleta Chuquipa after a bullying incident at Reseda Charter High School.
NYC parents
fromCalifornia Post
2 weeks ago

Child arrested after horrific bullying attack left schoolgirl, 12, dead

A child was arrested for the murder of 12-year-old Khimberly Zavaleta Chuquipa, who died after a bullying incident at school.
US news
fromBoston.com
2 weeks ago

Worcester man gets 30 years in prison for sexually exploiting minors

Antonio Merced was sentenced to 30 years for sexually abusing three children and possessing child pornography.
Poker
fromReadWrite
2 weeks ago

New York's Hochul proposes stricter youth online gambling rules

New York plans to enhance online gambling oversight to protect youth and prevent addiction.
fromArs Technica
3 weeks ago

As teens await sentencing for nudifying girls, parents aim to sue school

The school knows that they have this deepfake issue, and they all of a sudden add this clause to their enrollment contracts. That to me seems a little disingenuous and unfair, and it doesn't seem like someone's apologizing.
Education
Boston
fromBoston.com
3 weeks ago

Juvenile injured in Allston shooting

A shooting in Allston injured a person under 18, with the shooter fleeing the scene and no arrests made.
#alcohol
fromBoston.com
3 weeks ago

17-year-old killed in Brockton shooting, second fatal shooting in the city this week

The shooting occurred after a physical altercation between the two individuals, during which Tyree St. Cloud allegedly drew a firearm and opened fire.
Boston
#child-exploitation
fromBoston.com
1 month ago
NYC parents

Former Boston Public Schools teacher sentenced to 10 years in prison for child exploitation

fromBoston.com
1 month ago
NYC parents

Former Boston Public Schools teacher sentenced to 10 years in prison for child exploitation

Public health
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

Parents of teen who died in 2025 call for more government support

A Bournemouth University student died from Meningitis B in October 2025, prompting her parents to urge vaccination awareness and government reconsideration of meningitis vaccination policies.
Canada news
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 month ago

Ford government expanding BYOB rules to cultural, outdoor events | CBC News

Ontario is expanding BYOB alcohol permits to cultural and community outdoor events like farmers markets, movie screenings, and festivals, starting this spring.
Poker
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

Sports gambling could be boosting binge drinking in young men

Men aged 35 or younger with existing heavy drinking habits increase binge drinking frequency by 10 percent after online sports betting legalization in their state.
Boston
fromBoston.com
1 month ago

South Boston to crack down on public drinking at St. Pat's parade, as BPD warns about spiking

Boston officials enforce stricter public drinking laws at St. Patrick's Day parade while police warn attendees about drink spiking risks and prevention measures.
SF parents
fromABC7 San Francisco
1 month ago

Verdict reached in trial for Los Gatos mom accused of hosting drunken teen sex parties

A jury reached a verdict in the trial of Shannon O'Connor, a Los Gatos mother accused of hosting drunken sex parties involving teenagers and furnishing alcohol to minors.
Miscellaneous
fromBoston.com
1 month ago

Should teens be allowed to carry handguns in Massachusetts?

Massachusetts's highest court will decide whether people under 21 can legally carry handguns, challenging the state's age restriction law following the Supreme Court's 2022 gun rights expansion.
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month ago

Local Cops Urge Parents to Check Lunch Boxes After Kid Shows Up at School With a MARTINI

We know mornings can be hectic But your child shouldn't be the only one in the cafeteria with a beverage that requires an ID. Quick Parent Checklist: Homework, Lunch packed, Alcoholic beverages. If it says 12% ABV it does NOT belong next to a PB&J.
Humor
Cocktails
fromFast Company
1 month ago

In recovery? Here's how to handle social drinking situations in the workplace

Professionals in recovery from alcohol addiction can maintain sobriety in workplace drinking cultures by setting boundaries, avoiding overexplanation, and recognizing that colleagues care less about abstinence than feared.
fromCalifornia Post
1 month ago

California 'Party Mom' learns fate for hosting booze-fueled high school sex parties

This defendant took advantage of children, manipulated children, hurt children - emotionally, mentally, physically, and did that for her own perverse reasons. Every child who testified, the jury convicted the defendant of a charge involving that child.
California
fromTasting Table
2 months ago

The US State With Booze Rules So Strict, Even Your Pour Is Monitored - Tasting Table

Generally, the pour of liquor in your glass is up to the discretion and recipe of the mixologist. In Utah, however, bartenders are required to use a special calibrated device to ensure that a pour of liquor comes out at exactly 1.5 ounces. They are quite serious about this, mandating that all bottles use these devices, and that the devices themselves have a margin of error of less than one sixteenth of an ounce for a one-ounce pour - or about a third of a teaspoon.
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

Let Teens Exist in Public

My local Target was the first place I noticed the shift. One day, a few years ago, a sign appeared: red text on white paper announcing that no one under 18 would be allowed in without an adult. Before the poster, every weekday afternoon, clots of teens would move through the arteries of the store, occasionally blocking them. The kids would laugh among themselves, swatch makeup on their arms, peruse the candy offerings.
US politics
fromThe Mercury News
1 month ago

Oakland: Woman charged with 'assisting' trafficking of girl from group home

Oakland police say they adults pressured the girl into sex work, with Nelson allegedly "assisting" the trafficker, who hasn't been charged, court records show. Nelson's role included stealing "clothing and condoms" from a Target for the girl to use. The girl told police she was paid $100 for someone to look at her feet but wasn't sexually abused during the ordeal, authorities said.
East Bay (California)
Public health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

How Vaping Is Different Among Young Adults and Teens

Nicotine exposure before age 25 permanently disrupts brain development, and vape products continue being aggressively marketed to young people despite regulations and health risks.
SF politics
fromsfist.com
1 month ago

Lurie Moves Ahead With RESET' Center Drug Sobering Facility, Even as City Attorney Questions Its Legality

Mayor Lurie signed a new RESET sobering center into law despite City Attorney concerns that it may violate state law and detention-facility standards.
San Jose Sharks
fromThe Mercury News
1 month ago

San Jose teen charged for alleged production of 27 ghost guns in his bedroom

An 18-year-old San Jose resident was charged with manufacturing 27 ghost guns using 3D printers in his bedroom, including weapons modified to function as machine guns.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Livermore man charged with misdemeanor for allegedly taking picture up 11-year-old's dress

On Jan. 24, a woman and her fiance allegedly caught him taking a picture up her skirt. The man confronted Sanchez, who said he was going through a hard time but fled the store when the man called police, authorities said. The Walgreens manager helped police identify Sanchez as a suspect.
Privacy professionals
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

Sex offenders should tell police about pregnancies, review finds

Baby Victoria's body was found in a shopping bag in Brighton in 2023, after her parents concealed her birth and went on the run in an attempt to avoid contact with social services. Marten and Gordon, a convicted rapist, were both sentenced to 14 years for gross negligence manslaughter last year. The review, chaired by Sir David Holmes, sought to identify missed safeguarding opportunities, and to learn lessons from what the review called the "extreme case" of baby Victoria's death.
UK news
Wellness
fromMedscape
2 months ago

Dry January: The California Sobering Truth

Marijuana significantly influences human strategies for intentionally altering cognition, complementing alcohol-related behaviors and harm-reduction approaches like Dry January and GLP-1 interventions.
Mental health
fromEsquire
2 months ago

Is It Time to Quit Alcohol for Good?

A seasoned surgeon's decades-long alcoholism culminated in a near-suicide after relapse triggered by injury and extensive drinking during a family holiday.
Social justice
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Opinion: A California diversion program saved her from prison and dying young

Community-based diversion with behavioral health, job training, and supports can break cycles of trauma and incarceration and enable educational and professional recovery.
#youth-violence
fromSlate Magazine
2 months ago

The Trump Administration Is Right That We Should Stop Counting Our Alcoholic Drinks. Do This Instead.

The average Thanksgiving meal, Johnson warned on social media, was "roughly equal in metabolic injury" to smoking seven cigarettes. He tabulated the average calories, fat, carbs, sugar, and salt of the typical spread, all high. And he painted a picture of the damage the meal would do to one's body: "massive glucose spikes," "oxidative stress," "immune suppression," "sleep disruption," and "acute endothelial dysfunction."
Food & drink
fromReadWrite
1 month ago

BetMGM underage marketing emails trigger Massachusetts hearing

Massachusetts gambling regulators are sending a marketing case involving BetMGM straight to a formal hearing after learning that tens of thousands of promotional emails went out to people whose ages could not be verified, including minors and individuals on exclusion lists.
Law
Education
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 months ago

Primary school teacher banned after drinking can of beer in classroom

A primary school teacher was banned indefinitely after being found drinking alcohol in class and hiding the drink while eating mints.
Mental health
fromNature
2 months ago

'We need to dismantle the stigma of alcohol dependence in academia'

Alcohol is normalized in academic culture, making harmful use common and recovery stigmatized, though some academics transform their lives and work through long-term recovery.
fromNew York Post
1 month ago

Exclusive | Minor loophole: NYC Council bill could prevent 'young people' who commit crimes from getting arrested

A far-left Brooklyn pol is hoping the third time's a charm with socialist Zohran Mamdani now NYC mayor as she pushes legislation that could give "young people" carte blanche to commit crimes without fear of being arrested. The legislation, reintroduced for a third time on Jan. 29 by Democratic Councilwoman Crystal Hudson, would require that "young people" be "diverted" to "community-based organizations to receive services in lieu of criminal enforcement."
US politics
fromBrooklyn Eagle
2 months ago

Gounardes: Urgent action needed on underage gambling

Common Sense Media's new report, "Betting on Boys: Understanding Gambling Among Adolescent Boys," finds teen boys are largely exposed to gambling through sports betting and video games "in loot boxes, skin cases, and other reward systems that blur the line between playing and paying." More than a third of the boys surveyed, ages 11-17, admitted to gambling in the past year, with that number rising to nearly half of the 17-year-olds. Additionally, 60% reported seeing ads for gambling on YouTube and social media.
Public health
US news
fromThe Mercury News
2 months ago

Within a month he turned 18, graduated from high school, then shot and killed a man in Oakland

Abraham Salgado-Alfaro pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter for killing Ernesto Herrera and was sentenced to nine months in state prison.
California
fromThe Mercury News
2 months ago

Safeway threatens to prosecute two juveniles accused of stealing alcohol

Multiple incidents over three days included attempted garage burglary, suspicious vehicle following of juveniles, a stolen Tesla, and wallet theft with stolen credit-card use.
Law
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

Man faces further child sexual offence charges

Vincent Chan, 45, has been charged with 15 further offences including sexual assault, voyeurism and taking indecent images of children.
Food & drink
fromTasting Table
1 month ago

Are People Going To Drink More Or Less Alcohol In 2026? Here's What Research Suggests - Tasting Table

Gen Zs, Millennials, and many U.S. adults are intentionally reducing alcohol consumption, planning drinking days, and increasingly viewing alcohol as unhealthy.
Cocktails
fromTasting Table
2 months ago

If You See Your Bartender Do This, It Might Be A Crime - Tasting Table

Marrying bottles—combining contents of two open liquor bottles into one—is illegal for bartenders because it enables tax evasion, fraud, cross-contamination, and quality degradation.
California
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Safeway threatens to prosecute two juveniles accused of stealing alcohol

Multiple thefts, a stolen vehicle, an attempted garage entry, and a vehicle-following incident involving juveniles were reported across several local streets and businesses.
Public health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

How to Talk About Vaping Risk with Teens

Teen vaping is widespread, often leads to nicotine addiction, and effective parent conversations should build trust rather than rely on fear.
US news
fromBoston.com
2 months ago

Providence man dies after assault by group of 11- and 12-year-olds

A 51-year-old man, Romy Alfonso, died after being assaulted by four juveniles in Providence; the youths were apprehended and charged with felony assault and conspiracy.
US politics
fromEngadget
2 months ago

Washington is the latest state pursuing an age verification law for porn sites

Washington could require government ID-based age verification for access to online sexual content, with civil penalties for websites that fail to comply.
US news
fromwww.denverpost.com
2 months ago

Driver suspected of DUI reveals he has 3 kids in trunk

Three children under 12 were found in a car trunk after police pulled over and arrested the driver on suspicion of driving under the influence.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

San Jose: Stockton teen arrested in shooting that injured one at Story Road shop

The shooting was reported around 2:50 p.m. Jan. 10 at a business in a strip mall in the 3000 block of Story Road near South White Road, according to a San Jose police news release. An investigation determined that the suspect had a brief interaction with a man inside the store before firing at least one round at him then fleeing in a vehicle, police said. The victim was treated at a local hospital and is expected to survive.
California
Public health
fromIrish Independent
2 months ago

Confirmation Pledge taken by young teens updated to include explicit references to vaping and cigarettes

The Church updated the Confirmation Pledge to include abstaining from smoking and vaping until 18 and calls for honest engagement on addiction and its social drivers.
California
fromStreetsblog
2 months ago

Bipartisan Team of Assemblymembers Introduce DUI/Traffic Safety Laws - Streetsblog California

Lawmakers failed to pass AB 366 expanding ignition interlock devices; legislators vow to reintroduce it and pursue tougher DUI enforcement despite cost concerns.
Public health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Can Heavy Drinkers Learn to Moderate?

Some heavy drinkers can moderate, but individualized, flexible treatment that starts with moderation increases engagement and may lead to voluntary abstinence or harm reduction.
Public health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Is Vaping a Harmless Way to Stop Smoking?

Nicotine vaping increases quit rates versus other NRT but poses health risks and unknown long-term effects that must be balanced against smoking cessation benefits.
Public health
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 months ago

Vaping to be banned in cars carrying children in new government crackdown

The government proposes banning vaping and smoking in vehicles carrying children, playgrounds, and outside schools while allowing vaping in hospitals to support quitting.
Public health
fromThe Drum
2 months ago

Ad Council creates story-driven mobile chat to combat teenage drinking and driving

A Messenger-based interactive chat called 'Ultimate Party Foul' uses immersive group-chat storytelling to show real consequences and deter underage drinking and driving.
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

Vaping in cars with children could be banned under new plans

"Second-hand smoke increases the risk of heart disease and lung cancer and we want to protect children and the sick from harm," he said. "Prevention is better than cure, so this government is taking pressure off the NHS and building a healthier Britain where everyone lives well for longer."
Public health
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