Alcohol intoxication

Although there has been a significant decline since 2000 in fatal accidents due to driving under the influence of alcohol, almost one in two respondents (44%) said in a recent nationwide survey of 2,191 people conducted by Ierax Analytix for the EUROKTEO MOT center in Thessaloniki that they have driven while inebriated at least once.

A driver who hit five people while driving on a central street in Athens on Wednesday night told police they "appeared suddenly" in front of his car.

The 2020 edition of the Global Drug Survey has found that residents in English-speaking countries and Northern Europe drink to intoxication more often than in any other region of the world.

The man was a pedestrian, Croatian website Index is reporting on Monday.

Doctors found on Dec. 17 a bullet in the head of a man who was diagnosed with alcohol intoxication two days earlier in the southern province of Adana.

Greeks appear to have a healthier relationship with alcohol than their European Union counterparts, according to a recent study indicating that fewer Greeks tend to drink to excess.

Drunk driver with 5.19 BAC arrested in eastern town

POZAREVAC -- The traffic police in the town of Pozarevac in eastern Serbia on Thursday arrested a 42-year-old man for driving while extremely intoxicated.

The blood alcohol content (BAC) of the driver, S.B., was 5.19 milligrams per milliliter at the time of the arrest.

The legal limit in Serbia is 0.3 mg/ml.

The Czech Republic's government has decided to curb access to alcohol and gambling in a bid to reduce their negative impact on young people and adults alike.

CTK news agency reported on Monday that the cabinet has approved amendments to the national anti-drug policy, replacing the word "drugs" in the document by "addictive substances and gambling."