Sweden has a restrictive alcohol policy and has had a state-run alcohol retail monopoly since 1955. It was given an exemption to European Union legislation on free trade of goods when it joined in ...

Sweden’s retailing monopoly on alcohol was dealt a legal blow with a Supreme Court ruling that may pave the way for foreign online retailers to sell beverages to the Nordic country.

A 2021 government committee report estimated an increase in alcohol sales of around 200,000 litres a year across Sweden, or less than 1% of sales at Systembolaget. ALCOHOL RISKS ...

If the Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs (CAN) is to be believed, consumption is steadily falling, to 8.6 liters for 2023 – 70% of which came from Systembolaget, and the ...

The Islanders on Wednesday night confirmed a report out of Sweden that defenseman Sebastian Aho, 26, had been arrested for exceeding that nation’s legal limit for blood alcohol content while ...

Out of 206 fourth-grade students, 19 met criteria for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. This was found in a pilot study conducted at the University of Gothenburg. The results indicate that birth ...

In the new study, Lähteenvuo and his team looked at medical records from 228,000 people in Swedish who were diagnosed with alcohol use disorder from 2006 to 2023. All of the people in the study ...

Overall, the Swedish study found, alcohol consumption generated an average of 52kg of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) per person per year, equivalent to around four steaks or 70 glasses of milk.