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.

Around 130 youngsters in the county are being treated for alcohol addiction - even though they're not old enough to buy a drink. The shocking figures reveal the full scale of Kent and Medway's alcohol problems.

SALES of alcohol to children are at their lowest level in the past five years, new figures from one of the region’s authorities have revealed. Derbyshire County Council has said it “regularly works” with teenage volunteers, under the age of 18, who attempt to buy alco

Almost a quarter of Scots have seen someone drinking alcohol acting aggressively or violently towards a child, a survey has found. The figures were published as a campaign to stop alcohol affecting the lives of children was launched by a charity.