The EU Health Commissioner Tonio Borg has said he used to hope education would reduce alcohol misuse, but learning and reflection had shown economics were more important, hence his support…

Intense lobbying from alcohol producers would appear to have killed-off this ground-breaking policy The absence of minimum pricing for alcohol in today's Queen's Speech is a chilling reminder of the.

White collar workers increasingly using drink to escape the pressures of work, or as a ‘reward’ after a long day

Traditional approaches such as introducing youths to the taste of alcohol to encourage moderation are wrong-headed and dangerous, according to the report by the European Parliament's working group on quality…

2.5 million children in Britain are living with a ‘hazardous drinker’. Here, five women talk to Julia Llewellyn Smith about their childhood’s spent with an alcoholic mother

A legal challenge to the Scottish government's plans to introduce minimum pricing per unit of alcohol has failed. From the BBC The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) took action against the…

The Court of Session, Scotland's supreme civil court, has ruled today in favour of the legality of the Scottish government's plans to introduce minimum pricing per unit of alcohol. From…

A new report published today by IAS summarises the latest evidence on minimum pricing and rebuts some common criticisms (often from vested interest groups) of the policy. From Eurocare A…

Long after a hangover, a night of bad decisions might take a bigger toll on the body than previously understood. Described in the current issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental…

Rosa M. Crum, M.D., M.H.S., of the Johns Hopkins Health Institutions, Baltimore, Md., and colleagues examined whether self-medicating mood symptoms is associated with the increased probability of the onset and…