{"id":7906,"date":"2018-04-30T14:36:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T18:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=7ae3c5b27e2f9e71ddb32f6a2a01617c"},"modified":"2018-04-30T14:36:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T18:36:21","slug":"keep-potent-boozy-drinks-out-of-young-hands-substance-abuse-experts-urge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/30\/keep-potent-boozy-drinks-out-of-young-hands-substance-abuse-experts-urge\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep potent, boozy drinks out of young hands, substance abuse experts urge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8212; Educators, substance abuse experts and industry leaders are hoping to jump-start a conversation across Canada about keeping pre-mixed drinks loaded with alcohol, caffeine and sugar off shelves and away from young people.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Abuse is testifying at a House of Commons committee today about how best to restrict the sale and consumption of the controversial beverages.<\/p>\n<p>The centre says making the drinks with ethyl alcohol, rather than fermented malt, would make them more expensive and limit where they can be sold.<\/p>\n<p>A national outcry about how accessible the drinks can be erupted earlier this year following the death of 14-year-old Athena Gervais in Laval, Que.<\/p>\n<p>While a toxicology report has not yet been released, a caffeinated alcoholic beverage sold in Quebec has been singled out as a possible factor.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s hearing in Ottawa is the first of two confirmed meetings on the topic so far, with another scheduled for Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &mdash; Educators, substance abuse experts and industry leaders are hoping to jump-start a conversation across Canada about keeping pre-mixed drinks loaded with alcohol, caffeine and sugar off shelves and away from young people. The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Abuse is testifying at a House of Commons committee today about how best to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7907,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7906\/revisions\/7907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}