Health Expert Calls For Alcohol Sale Crackdown After Study Shows Large Liquor Spending Increases

18 Aug 2020

There are calls for a crackdown to make alcohol harder to buy from off licences after a study released on Tuesday shows New Zealanders are drinking harmful amounts in their homes.

The study is based on a 2011 survey of 2000 Kiwis. The research shows that ahead of last week's alert level changes, spending on alcohol increased by 195 percent and Auckland saw a massive 400 percent increase.

The study's author Taisia Huckle believes that as a result of lockdown harmful drinking at home would be even worse now.

"In a time of lockdown we would expect to see that most, if not all, of the harmful drinking would be in homes," she says.

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