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Alarming ease of online alcohol deliveries

From Saturday Morning, 7:42 am today
Andrew Galloway, executive director of Alcohol Healthwatch.

Andrew Galloway, executive director of Alcohol Healthwatch. Photo: supplied

A new study has found 73 percent of online alcohol deliveries in Auckland are left at the door or delivered without requesting identification.

The data was taken from 45 online alcohol orders placed over a two month period last year, by a researcher under 22 years old.

The study, which is published in the latest issue of the New Zealand Medical Journal, also found it only took half an hour for orders to arrive at the door through rapid alcohol delivery companies.

Advocacy group Alcohol Healthwatch carried out the research, and its executive director Andrew Galloway joins Susie to discuss the study.

ILLUSTRATION - A girl sits behind empty beer bottles in Berlin, Germany, with a bottle of beer standing in the foreground, 28 May 2016. Alocohol and media addiciton is often a taboo issue for parents, often help of information centres is sought too late. Photo: Alexander Heinl/dpa (Photo by Alexander Heinl / DPA / dpa Picture-Alliance via AFP)

Photo: ALEXANDER HEINL

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