Alcohol producers are on track to deliver their pledge to provide health information on 80% of alcohol labels on UK shelves by the end of 2013, according to Portman Group data.

The Big Lottery Fund is giving £7m in grants to help tackle alcohol abuse in Northern Ireland.

Children’s lives are being ruined by alcohol-fuelled violence, says charity CHILDREN 1ST, as new research suggests almost a quarter of people living in Scotland (23 per cent) have seen someone who’s been drinking being aggressive or violent towa

Just two months after the coalition's drugs policies came under fire from campaigners who accused the government of putting lives at risk by promoting total abstinence to deal with addiction, a fresh row has erupted over the transfer o

Almost 100,000 people were given advice about their drinking last year. A total of 97,830 brief interventions about alcohol were made, where health professionals raise concerns about someone's drinking, well above the target of 61,08

Abstract (provisional) Background It is widely believed that corporate actors exert substantial influence on the making of public health policy, including in the alcohol field.

ScotRail is banning alcohol on its night trains, the operator has announced. Carrying and drinking alcohol on the company’s trains will be banned between 9pm and 10am, and passengers may be refused travel if under the influence of alcohol under the new rules.