Minimum alcohol pricing: Canada’s accidental public health strategy
I have watched with fascination as successive UK and European governments have pledged to make cheap alcohol a thing of the past by introducing minimum unit pricing or MUP. By…
Alcohol-related brain damage report highlights concerns
A report into alcohol-related brain damage (ARBD) should serve as a "wake-up call", Alcohol Concern Cymru said. From BBC News Wales It highlights the condition, known as ARBD, which it…
Community action ‘not enough’ to reduce alcohol harm
Community action does little to curb the severe problems arising from risky drinking behaviour, say authors of a new study. They say their findings, reported today in PLOS Medicine, support…
EU has ‘highest’ level of alcohol use and related harm
Europe has the perception that there is a safe level of alcohol consumption, but the truth is there's no such thing, argues Lars Møller. From The Parliament Every drink, whatever…
Minimum alcohol pricing may actually reduce health inequalities
It is oft argued by libertarian think-tanks that introducing minimum pricing for alcohol would lead to moderate drinkers, particularly those from low socio-economic status backgrounds, suffering disproportionately. Indeed, this was…
Minimum pricing for alcohol: Reducing health inequalities without penalising responsible drinkers
When the UK Government abandoned its proposal to introduce minimum unit pricing for alcohol in July 2013, it argued there was a lack of concrete evidence that the policy would…
‘Alarming’ global cancer surge fuelled by alcohol, smoking and obesity
A global drive to tackle the causes of cancer linked to lifestyle, such as alcohol abuse, sugar consumption and obesity, has been urged on Monday by the World Health Organisation…
Drinking during pregnancy ‘worse than smoking tobacco or cannabis’ and 7,000 babies a year are harmed, warn senior medics
Drinking during pregnancy causes more harm to the unborn child than tobacco smoke or cannabis, according to senior doctors. From dailymail.co.uk They want Government guidelines to be changed to tell…
The UK government’s shameful dumping of its alcohol strategy — from a liver specialist who lives with the fallout
Guest blog by Dr Nick Sheron on Alastair Campbell's website The anniversary of the First World War is also the anniversary of legislation which brought an end to the second great…
Lobbyists: what alcohol and gambling learned from tobacco
The addiction industries – gambling, alcohol and now sugar – had it tough last week. All are under pressure to defend their industries against increasing evidence of their harm and…
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