Alcohol Deaths Spur Changes on Reservation
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The Flathead Indian Reservation is shifting its focus to children and retooling tribal policies following the drinking deaths of four boys in a six-month period. The deaths, starting in late 2003, stunned the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, but inspired a gritty resolve to help children deal with alcohol without underestimating the power of generations of alcohol abuse.
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A sharp increase in the number of middle-aged people drinking themselves to death was revealed yesterday
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UNNAO, India -- Early in September, a lawmaker here celebrated his 41st birthday with a packed poolside party of dancing, drunken, gun-wielding guests at a highway resort called Fantasy motel. As the party moved into full swing around midnight, people began firing into the air in delirious joy.
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Alcohol abuse kills some 75,000 Americans each year and shortens the lives of these people by an average of 30 years, a US government study suggested on Thursday.
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AT least 18 people have died after drinking tainted homemade liquor in Pakistan&#39;s eastern Punjab province. Two of the men were dead on arrival at Nishtar Hospital in Multan, and six others died in intensive
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Child sexual abuse fuelled by rampant alcoholism was widespread in Aboriginal communities across Australia&#39;s vast Northern Territory, a government-commissioned inquiry found Friday.
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MULTAN, Sept 4: As many as 24 people were reported dead due to the consumption of poisonous liquor in and around Multan during the last 24 hours.
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A review of the accidental overdose of a central Alberta man in hospital last summer has concluded that a number of things went wrong that led to the death.
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SKULL VALLEY, Utah  - As some U.S. Indian tribes   have grown rich in recent years through casinos, others far   from population centers have struggled to overcome a historical   legacy of poverty.
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Housing on Indian reservations is plagued by substandard infrastructure and overcrowded conditions that can lead to a host of health problems, an advocacy group said Monday.
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At least 22 people die after drinking illegally brewed alcohol in the Pakistani city of Karachi, police say.
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By Kate Schott, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 21--The Alcohol Oversight Committee voted unanimously Tuesday to ask the La Crosse Common Council for another 30 days to refine a proposed server ordinance.
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By DAVID KRAVETS  SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for Southwestern Indian tribes urged a federal appeals court Thursday to block the proposed expansion of an Arizona ski resort they say already desecrates land they hold sacred and sullies their religious beliefs.
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By Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 13--Thousands of people in Kodiak and other Alaska communities might lose their right to subsistence hunting and fishing under federal law.   If that happens, many say, they'll lose a way of life.
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[Health India]: Washington, Oct 12 : An article published in the October 11 issue of The Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, has revealed that alcohol consumption may slightly increase the risk for developing a certain type
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Â· Police call for crackdown on cheap alcoholÂ· 'Feral' gang had been on seven-hour drinking binge
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland  - As Wendy Friar put the final touches on a health screening and powwow for Maryland's American Indian community, she had doubts about how the combination would be received.