From Sunday, anyone caught drinking or even carrying, open containers of alcohol will be ejected from trains and buses.
Newly elected London mayor Boris Johnson introduced the ban in one of his first acts in office. Johnson said: "I firmly believe that banning the drinking of alcohol on London's public transport will create a better travelling environment for all Londoners and that if we drive out anti-social behaviour and so called minor crime then we will be able to get a firm grip on more serious crime."
The ban has been criticised by the railworkers' union RMT as another burden on its overworked members. The union's general secretary Bob Crow warned it could put staff in greater danger of assault.
The union's general secretary Bob Crow said "Violence against Tube staff is already a major problem, particularly from people who have been drinking, but now our members will be expected to approach people drinking and stop them or even remove them from the train or station," he said.
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Sunday, December 6, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
INTELLIGENCER STAFF
Prince Edward OPP are warning local high school students that alcohol should not be part of their annual school-skipping beach parties.
Local and regional students -- sometimes by the thousands -- have in recent years selected one day in June on which to skip school and head to Sandbanks Provincial Park.
This year's event is scheduled to happen today. "The youths come equipped to spend the day on the beach, often attempting to smuggle in alcohol to be consumed during their stay," said an OPP news release. "Alcohol is prohibited on the beach and the majority of the teens are underage.
"Each year, park wardens and a team of OPP officers from Prince Edward County and surrounding areas are deployed to this event to conduct RIDE checks at each entry point to the park, this year is no exception," it said.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Today Alcohol Abuse is a wide spread problem
Alcohol abuse has in the past been an adult problem, bringing devastating issues to families. Unlucky as this should have been, we are now faced with a pandemic of adolescent alcohol abuse. Totally 1/2 our youngsters, from the grade college level thru highschool, have sampled alcoholic drinks in any given month.
While illegal drugs are now widely available, even in grade colleges, it shouldn't be so surprising that adolescent alcohol abuse is also a wide-ranging problem. Unlike prescription and street drugs, alcohol is legal and freely available in most peoples's houses. While you, as a parent, can have a stock of alcoholic drinks in your house bar inventory, you could never imagine that your youngsters are imbibing.
You actually must stress about the drug culture happening in each college, but may not realize how far down this reaches, even to the grade faculty level. When your youngster reaches middle college, you may be certain that they are exposed to alcohol and drugs. Peer pressure plays a huge role in fostering a need to 'be cool' and experiment with both alcohol and drugs. Drugs may frighten off some youngsters, but alcohol is a socially sanctioned, legal, 'recreational' step into the sector of adult rights.
Kids don't appear to distinguish between alcohol and drugs, except that drugs are illegal, while alcohol isn't.
Maybe this is the reason why adolescent alcohol abuse is rising. My parents drink, so why should not I try it? is a typical desist.
They don't understand that their physical development isn't that of an adults and that alcohol has effects on them differently. They also do not understand moderation in almost all things is the best plan. While you will enjoy an occasional drink with dinner, or be ready to enjoy a simple relaxing effect, children incline to overdo. They are on the lookout for that comprehensive high. Alcohol provides such a high. Adolescent alcohol abuse is what ensues.
So how can you help your children tell the difference between moderate pleasure and abuse? If you, as a parent, decide to drink alcohol sparsely, you may prove, by example, the difference. Talk to your children.
In EU homes, children are sometimes permitted to have some sips, on special occasions. They may get that heady feeling, together with a sense that it is not some prohibited delight, but is tied to the delight in the food. They aren't certain to get tempted to indulge outside of the home and may not enjoy it.
On the other hand, if alcoholic drinks are treated as a secretive and prohibited pleasure, it becomes straightforward for their peers to persuade them that alcohol and drugs are something that they need to explore all alone, notwithstanding whatever fine example their fogeys could be setting.
Adolescent alcohol abuse is one of the most wide-ranging problems bedeviling our youngsters today. If youngsters lose trust in what their parents want to say on these subjects, they become simple prey to both alcohol and drug abuse. Be truthful and straight when you talk to them. Do talk to them.
While illegal drugs are now widely available, even in grade colleges, it shouldn't be so surprising that adolescent alcohol abuse is also a wide-ranging problem. Unlike prescription and street drugs, alcohol is legal and freely available in most peoples's houses. While you, as a parent, can have a stock of alcoholic drinks in your house bar inventory, you could never imagine that your youngsters are imbibing.
You actually must stress about the drug culture happening in each college, but may not realize how far down this reaches, even to the grade faculty level. When your youngster reaches middle college, you may be certain that they are exposed to alcohol and drugs. Peer pressure plays a huge role in fostering a need to 'be cool' and experiment with both alcohol and drugs. Drugs may frighten off some youngsters, but alcohol is a socially sanctioned, legal, 'recreational' step into the sector of adult rights.
Kids don't appear to distinguish between alcohol and drugs, except that drugs are illegal, while alcohol isn't.
Maybe this is the reason why adolescent alcohol abuse is rising. My parents drink, so why should not I try it? is a typical desist.
They don't understand that their physical development isn't that of an adults and that alcohol has effects on them differently. They also do not understand moderation in almost all things is the best plan. While you will enjoy an occasional drink with dinner, or be ready to enjoy a simple relaxing effect, children incline to overdo. They are on the lookout for that comprehensive high. Alcohol provides such a high. Adolescent alcohol abuse is what ensues.
So how can you help your children tell the difference between moderate pleasure and abuse? If you, as a parent, decide to drink alcohol sparsely, you may prove, by example, the difference. Talk to your children.
In EU homes, children are sometimes permitted to have some sips, on special occasions. They may get that heady feeling, together with a sense that it is not some prohibited delight, but is tied to the delight in the food. They aren't certain to get tempted to indulge outside of the home and may not enjoy it.
On the other hand, if alcoholic drinks are treated as a secretive and prohibited pleasure, it becomes straightforward for their peers to persuade them that alcohol and drugs are something that they need to explore all alone, notwithstanding whatever fine example their fogeys could be setting.
Adolescent alcohol abuse is one of the most wide-ranging problems bedeviling our youngsters today. If youngsters lose trust in what their parents want to say on these subjects, they become simple prey to both alcohol and drug abuse. Be truthful and straight when you talk to them. Do talk to them.
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