2016.04.07
In France, the first online village for addiction has been launched. The information portal for smokers, alcoholics and heroin addicts who seek help is designed like a country village, where each building corresponds to ...
2016.03.01
Unlike the majority of his colleagues, a French psychiatrist is using films to cure his patients of alcoholism. Dr. Henry Gomez doesn't believe that films that show people drinking alcohol have a negative impact ...
2015.09.17
Rodolphe Barry had a successful professional modelling career 21 years, four months and 11 days ago. Today, he depends on a wheelchair. A terrible car accident caused by drink-driving changed his life completely. Now ...
2014.07.09
It's 'au-revoir' to lunch breaks with a glass of good wine. And no more alcohol drinks to toast colleagues' birthdays. This is what awaits employees of French firms because, from 3 July, companies can ...
2014.02.07
The earlier in life you start drinking and smoking, the more easily you can become addicted. This is the warning from French institute Inserm, in the first major study of its kind. According to ...
2013.11.08
People in the south of France have bad habits in their blood, according to analysis by Inpes on the of consumption of alcohol, tobacco and cannabis in France. This analysis has been conducted at ...
2013.10.07
France's anti-smoking and drinking policies to combat consumption among the young have failed. Sixteen and 17 year olds are actually now smoking and drinking more than in 2009, when the ban on selling alcohol ...
2013.05.07
59% of French children aged 11 have already drunk alcohol with their family, mostly cider and champagne. The figure rose to 93% among students during their last year of high school, preferring beer and ...
2013.03.06
A glass of wine a day may be good for the heart, but three will damage your health, to say the least. This warning comes from French researchers, who have shown that alcohol abuse ...
2013.03.04
In France it is now required by law to carry a breathalyzer on board all motor vehicles. The law, which amends the existing highway code, states that 'all drivers must have an unused breathalyzer ...