Calls by a Samoa Supreme Court Justice to deal with what he describes as a "pandemic" of alcohol abuse are being backed by the country's addiction services agencies.
They in turn lay much of the blame on cheap, easy to access rice vodkas and one is even calling for a ban on the locally brewed fire-water.
Dominic Godfrey reports.
Apia, the national capital of Samoa. Photo: RNZ / Koroi Hawkins
