Interesting to see that the Irish Minister of Health is still subscribing 
to the dictum that "less is better". This, of course, is the prevention
paradox or population/public health model of alcohol-related problems,
which I thought governments were generally in the process of abandoning, as
they are forced to accept the evidence of the health benefits of moderate 
alcohol consumption (not to mention the fundamental shakiness of the
Ledermann theory on which it is based). I know that the WHO still
subscribes to it, but the British government no longer does so, nor (would
it appear) the US government, now that CSAP has stopped trying to talk
about alcohol as just another drug of which there is no such thing as
responsible use. It is, however, much easier to find evidence of
governments adopting such a policy than to find out when they abandon it, 
as they are hardly going to make a public announcement to the effect that 
what they have been telling everyone is actually wrong. Does anyone know of
any other evidence to show that governments are indeed abandoning this
model for the prevention of alcohol-related problems? Or is this another
case of looking for the dog that did not bark in the night?