the, the of the ocean comes today's september the welcome to a special edition of data being use half because looking at the applicants and the d one dream. now the world health organization says only no alcohol is safe home. so how many applicants choose of samson. and for those who do decide to dream, how they coping with the drug of choice, do they even have a choice? we look at what alcohol is doing to the dream because the families and the communities they live in. i'll take a trip to my mother's homes con dial, which has one spring, an over abundance townsend. and what about the generation to come? alcohol is a potent poison, especially for the developing speed test. and the will see that the news applicant

looks to west and tape where the 3 teams is black, see the lives of previous even before they're born, we speak to the mothers and their children, but there are alternatives to alcohol. however, mastic flavor, some adults from the sucker punch on the pallets without the brain and you'll pounds and you had the morning after that's an easy feeling about to live in the long term the i need is the money and i will be welcome to a special edition of the w news africa on ask because alcohol that starts with the good news. a recent report from the world health organization found that most african don't drink alcohol at school and never have done. take a look of attention from alcohol can either be lifelong. here in green or former drink has shown in yellow, you can see mazda 7 people's sense of applicants have never drunk, also hold for

a form of drink, those who have stopped. how does that compare with the mainly mostly is sudden mediterranean obsession that is above 95 percent. and what about euro? it's almost opposite to africa. nearly 2 sides of europeans say they've recalls the whole thing with that 3 we compare we. so let's look at how much alcohol it's drink, actually consumes on average. and here you can see a very different picture dislike having to a drink because also can drink because consumer about 33 grams per day. just for the sake of comparison, that's about 2 and a half glasses of wine every day. whatever the drinking adults in those mostly majority countries in north and africa and the middle east could seem about 16 grams of pure alcohol per day. european drink coast consume twice as much about 32 brands, everything. let's drill down into the data from the continent. darkest green is countries where people consume the most, the lightest,

the least. what's another way, though, relatively few african adults drink. those who do drink a lot. so is there such a thing a safe drinking? the w h o says clearly there is no safe level for alcohol consumption. there is danger in every drop. so what's nice like for those heavy drink, because i decided to return to my mother's whole village where alcohol has become a scourge on the once lively market has no one over supply or just one thing to have you know, sleepy village and central kenya come on jumble ro begins. he's d willing to the afternoon. despite the appointment to interview, he made days before hand. he's forgotten. memory blackouts are regular for the 32 year old. the father of 2 has been drinking since he was 15 and he hasn't stopped since. how do we go these days? i mostly sit around doing nothing and drink out of desperation. i mean i have

nothing to look forward to in my life. and it's like when i wake up, i wish i could get money to go to the boss. first thing in the morning, could i do spend a whole day that drinking the menu? the, the, the coke i'd be getting bo depends on, on jobs and his motorcycle business for income. when a good day, he could make nearly 3 years. but he spends 2 years a day on alcohol. he tells me that he feels most like himself when he drinks. his heavy test pushed his family away, leaving him alone and miserable. bbc as my wife left me when i was still young. i blame myself. i have uncontrollable thoughts and often when i drink it, because i feel stressed my life left because we're always arguing and also because of the alcohol, which meant i couldn't provide the life we deserved and was frank tells me that many drinkers in the community share the same sense of helplessness and that's what i'm good. yeah. usually it's out of desperation and too much stress going on. then

there's a poverty here. yeah. which adds to the stress mean it's a non wanting every 8 canyon strings, but the national body, competing against alcohol abuse reports, the 42 percent of those drink cars are addicted. edwards, so many young men struggling to stay. so being the village, the economy here has been strangled. this community is quite is also meant to double up as an economic hub for this village i see meant to because my mother actually grew up in this village. in fact, the shop in yellow now converted to a buy used to be my grandfather's shop. next to it was another shop. now about next to it also used to be another shop. so above in total we've come to the, to the 6 problems here. and the women in disability to see that they're trying to change this a june colanda spots of the help group which provide support for recovering alcoholics. the group is raising money to start businesses for former adults like her sister, milka. uga has been suitable for less than a year following

a 16 year back, who without the whole, it's a dedicated process for the 2 sisters as they try to build their relationship the to get the does look good, we can't keep reminding her of her drunk days no, that's not good, and it would take her back. what is left now is for her to move forward, or we can do is give her the morales keep going. the other, you not bid. it's 5 pm on the most popular, but here is nearly full for $0.98. customers get 2 glasses of b a which they spike with much stronger spirits. these little to no regulation of alcohol here and drink has tell me then not sure what's in this periods. laura's friends have arrived, but he's working on a nearby job. they've saved a spot for him because they assure he will join them later on this way. now joined by an muscle who is a recovering alcoholic. 20 is uninterrupted, she tells me and she is also a passion,

is competing against alcohol abuse and drug addiction here in center. thank you for joining us on. so coming out of that support, the 1st question one might ask you, why does the people who choose to drink and kinda drink to such an extent? one is availability. alcohol is readily available any way any tight. and then, uh, accessibility, you can easily access it. so you said no, the community has accepted, the printing is cool. so availability, accessibility and not accept ability, but you know, just give me a call. you probably like to ask, how come you don't drink and why don't you have to explain yourself as to why you don't think so? it's a sort of a culture. it's accepted and finding a platform with a drinking problem. a drug problem is not a big deal. it's not that big thing anymore. and so what are some of the challenges that you face when it comes to regulation of production, manufacturing and even consumption of alcohol?

so one of us we had actually with the duel coverage was the licenses of nearly all of them, and they have to be visit the 1st. so some of them have been close down, have not been licensed, some have been licensed. now the biggest challenge with this report especially, was wanting take into consideration on the on the thing is that they have the means . but what does that mean for 30 is license, then they have a sub truck 30, some waiting, the village when they come to the come meet, solve the f one questions. but the level is, is the, is actually the legal drinking is obviously not new to kenya is in fact culturally, we have very many names for different rules and there's different ways of preparing them. so why is this phenomenal addiction new to this contemporary society? we have too many addictive substances, some of them synthetic and we don't, we no longer have the, the most up to use to have the dish on the bruce. one told, you know, the welcome to buy the address of the class, sets it up,

not anybody put the risk up and drink. and then they have the a way of disappearing those people who have that drinking problem. and actually people see i've even been seen by, i know that when the truck but then this, this is like the called to have shifted that of a call to cultural values and morals have sheets if that the website, knowing what used to be we've been told him too much about nights. so, and then there's something like there's some comes with a new brings. and this brings, i highly addictive. a highly, highly addictive your now 20 years. so, but congratulations as of recovering addicts. can you tell me what some of the challenges? well, on your journey are some of the things that perhaps might pay me when you look at some of the people who are grappling with addiction, lack of support. my family members, when you add in that direction and when you're in recovering and they have one of the latest interview, just say that we don't want to keep one reminding this one where she's coming from . so if i'm talking to a member of a week to the mind the possible,

know i used to still have a phones, not forgetting that this special needs support to remain football when he feels is ready to talk about his class. he will talk about this thing the, the plus part of the body to be actually hijacked by alcohol is a brain. and then after sometime when the turnaround goes up, you'll keep on progressing from one stage to another. and then it gets to a time where the alcohol mix and usually some for you that with the process of soviet but you have to bring in the morning to simple life. and actually many, many, many people die from alcohol abuse drugs. yes. a lot of sigma, a lot of work that still needs to be done on my so thank you so much for joining us . so we kind of ready to see how alcohol is destroying lives. and that's even clearer if you look at the number of deaths attributed to drink. europe and africa have the highest number of alcohol death in the world. africa news is 52. compared with the median wisdom countries with

alcohol consumption is noah. this caused by drink of just 9 well, 100000. in europe, there are 53. this 100000 drink us. but some lives the black to buy booze even before they begin. alcohol is a potent poison, especially for the developing feats us, you know, mother's womb, a condition called fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, or s a s d. so it's actually cause wine industry is centered on western cape and it's no coins to the program has the highest rates of the alcohol disorder in the entire world. diane hawk reports from cape town to linux fund ross. he's expecting will much. she already knows a new baby's life will be difficult so i may not know she has no regular work and her husband doesn't make much money. they already have 4 children to feed. and now assess is on the way to nothing. i really hurting inside. i didn't want this baby

in the, in the that make me feel like i should drink every day. i'm a friend used to come with a little bit of money and we would rush to buy box wine so that we could drink the whole day. it was very difficult to keep the baby she lives in a neighborhood with more than 20 unlicensed because outlets people can be seen drinking from the early morning in these makes shift 'cause, gangs, and drugs or rampage. areas like rid of all in wooster, have high levels of unemployment, high levels of poverty and hopelessness. this cocktail of negative circumstances drive many people here to drink heavily. and some others simply don't know the impact this has on the unborn children. fund ross only realize the long term damage of the actions when she joined is facts program. she is one of

a dozen women turnkey being canceled against drinking while pregnant and breast feeding to it a lot that we have to teach them that it's just for a short period of time for the cool thing. but in that short time for your endangering your child's brain and you can get a lot, they have to see the danger. i guess the 5 about the foundation for alcohol related research says the is a national problem. every way we've gone, we've seen the high prevalence of fee to apples spectrum disorder in the communities we work, and unfortunately it strongly linked to low associated nomic state. this poverty plays a massive role in all of the aspects of all of the characteristics of mothers of children with a face the a lot of it can be traced back to a associated can nomic status. taishan lawrence was adopted and experienced alcohol withdrawal symptoms as a baby as an adult. she's living with severe learning,

difficult to. she can perform simple tasks like the ball coding. look, she does it in local factory. so she's happy to have found a loving work environment. salem asked me my family issue and because i may have a nice place, i wouldn't say that not because they really teachers, adoptive mother sees the impacts of a lifelong for children. born with a is steep. yeah, she went to a special needs school and their main focus was on good manners is said, you know, if you've got good mountainous and you can get through life easier, she cannot read or write. she recognizes different symbols and she can pick out the brands that we always have. we would stick to just about the same brand activists say education about the condition needs to be more wide sprayed targeting

not only mothers, but the communities they live in to that ssl across to cape town, south africa, where we'd join to buy. did i make a dentrix, who's the secretary general of the south and african alcohol policy alliance? thank you for joining us. no fetal alcohol syndrome, as we've just seen, that is a serious concern and awareness about it is crucial. are there any initiatives that your organization is, has implemented to protect bundle go vulnerable groups, particularly pregnant women? well, um, as softball, we've chosen to focus on the, the best buys of the world health organization, which is basically looking at seducing availability, increasing the price of alcohol, and to speak to banning um, alcohol marketing. in particular asked marketing towards young people who have cancer. and that includes young women that we have on the continent and sylvester

to re hall's. i'm to 40 percent of young people that is consuming alcohol. and the apple industry sees this as a, a, a target market that they should be company. and they, for the, issued on looking at a position based on dimensions we, we look at banding, alcohol. marketing becomes important because the evidence shows that children and young people um, through exposure to marketing 8, they all bunch of will to start experimenting early and come see you, what i'll call you. and he wants to, to meet needs to binge drinking, which is a major problem in south africa. right. so, other like you're talking about the contemporary marketing trends, but south africa has a very complex history with alcohol. how have you seen these trends evolved on consumption and production and how they affect the south african society as well?

i'm the, as soon as we do have a complex seized, and that comes back from the colonizing era, with alcohol reviews, to grab land from being ditches. people are particularly under the optic laws. alcohol was not allowed to be sold to black people. and that lead to a nice, it's marketing um retaining um in vitamins way, which leads to what? rico foundation beings in south africa. and we have kindly to meet over 2 150000 illegal alcohol ultimate. we have their own not license the mountain regulators, and it's also quite accept it because a visa started co factors we, i'll call you as well. and so the opposing apostage given back to the opposite government wants to supply. so once we have now is

about 250000 license alternates that is accepted in communities. we, nobody talks about reports vaulted the know tons of it to the blind on to it done in full. so those that lives amongst a um, alcohol legal office and that increases the availability of alcohol introduce in general, it was because be sure beans are filed in areas where people love and knocking bases meet in commercial uh, seems commercially again, what are some of the challenges that you're facing, trying to implement some of the policies that you have in place or well i'll, i'll challenge is that we have used to have a government the completely bought into the idea that we should control alcohol. a government categories to seize alcohol as way of bringing people into the

economy, which is problematic. and they, for the way they legal aid, alcohol will have a force, existing laws, ease ease, not as it should be. um i'll challenge is also that the whole industry uses nomic muscle to the lobby government to around the notion that they are contributing to the economy that they are creating jobs. the problem with that is, is that, although they all come to beaching about 4 percent towards the g, d p, the hall from, i'll call the government has to put money off for energy use between 2 and 12 percent on all gdp. so technically, and so actually the tax payers subsidize the profits of the whole industry. but we don't have a government that understands that dynamic and still buys into the narrative that

the alcohol industry use june of 18. well thank you very much for explaining that rather complex issue in south africa, jamaica districts who is the secretary general for the south and african alcohol policy alliance. thank you. that specifically is now tonight, jerry away. just because suggest, let go, says level fair, with some pain may be funding victim to the cost of living crisis. prices have doubled and sales have gone slots. but the bottom li, like most alcohol, is seen as a status symbol. we asked the w ask because only such a who wants to fix a nice house and they do is pockets out and find out what's the poison of choice. the here at the lounge, windows 7 on the lucky x x base we. it's a typical night out,

it school about cocktails and a few shots of tequila. fucked. mainly about coffee is sound really cold. so that was my favorite rights, is i can hardly love drinking and cold so bought in that wilson fancies knows what most of the customers want to switch off. what's the income for the comfort? how cool? that's the end of day. you doesn't have to spend the acuity you gotta be. i think it's something took you to. i like to start very hard, very, very hard. i go with this trend as strong as will be the the hospital for the fire didn't go milder, but not everyone is a fan of having to go. some people do want to drink responsibly as a septic yourself. yeah, i do. apple watch the why that school phone do good. so when it was i will stick myself out. i don't do alcohol. the really my, my thing when i go out on friday, i take something like like what i'm thinking right now,

this month. bill no alcohol or alcohol is is why did they preferentially major? yeah. but some do purpose. i'm not going to cut through. like this is called a top by going to nice in lagos. i would this pick red color is quite popular. as soon as one of my dress favorite drinks vice was even here in lagos. some have a more radical approach extension on the rocks when it comes to i cool. i don't. so i just refer you. give me what you states, my opinion might not be yours. it doesn't me because i said, i'm not. it cannot go, you must follow me. i'm really, i've done my own. how do you? i also, after you all know it's, you know, what is good for you and i move on. right. we're now joined by a gun, the buzz that bundle about from the drink new, which is a company specializing an alcohol, 3 drinks for adults. i also thank you for joining us. so the silver curious

movement is definitely gaining traction globally, gives us what you're seeing in south africa. thank you so much for having me today . absolutely. installed africa and globally as well. we're seeing the rise of the sofa curious, and that has a whole host of reasons and could be because people wanting to be healthy. yeah. because people don't feel great off the night of drinking. and people are just wanting to be more mindful about what they put in their bodies. right? so i know you're talking about the health element here, but there's also kind of stigma one might say associated with not drinking particularly a tiny event where everybody else is. what is drinking you doing to sort of change this perception? and i think that's a great question. and when i really sat down and thought about this as a black women in corporate, we're always counting an increase of a t rex. in south africa. we need to increase the, owing to women, how them treat people of color. but a place where i feel exhibit is lacking is when it comes to people that choose to

not consume alcohol and stigmatization, it goes across different aspects and elements. and so what we're doing is we're challenging people corporate after work, functions, and festivals, and using festivals and jazz festival. how are you, beatrice of to your patients? i choose to not consume. all right, so when we're punching and what we're pushing for isn't cosivity so that those ventures to not consume with for health reasons religious reasons are just because they don't like to take also included in the phone. we're trying to move away from the society that is all about alcohol. and we're say, the money isn't over just because the true to not consumed alcohol. the party has just begun. all right, so i end up finding the do you see a continental of africa or a country like south africa being completely alcohol free? when it comes to potties and maybe some of these traditional rites of passage?

the answer is no. i don't. but what i'm saying is that these things can co exist just before covered in 2019 cape town had a solar festival. and that 1st of all was only for people that choose to not consume alcohol. but they, there was music that was stalls, they were different types of nano colored things. and that says to me that the market is there and it's completely understaffed and underserved and undervalued. so what we're saying is the 2 can co exist. so we, we hardly but the jazz festival and we will have department of choice for 9 oclock beverages. that's exactly what we're saying. that patients can still enjoy the jazz festival and having a 100 beverages as well as a 100 beverages. so i think that you can co exist high and down from bad from south africa. drink. camille, thank you for joining us. thank you so much for having me. and that's

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