The Family Ministry has launched a leaflet with recipes for non-alcoholic cocktails – known as mocktails – in a bid to encourage people to drink less.
The leaflet was the result an initiative with the Institute of Tourism Studies, and is one of various measures being taken to cut alcohol use, particularly among youths.
According to the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (Espad) report, in 2015 drinking by students was higher than the EU average. Over half of students surveyed (54%) had consumed alcohol in the previous 30 days, and 47 per cent had at least one binge in that period. This was six and 12 percentage points above the EU average, respectively.
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