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What has 2020 done to the UK’s alcohol consumption?
Alcohol problems and insurance
On the strengths and limitations of 'NoLo' drinks
Shrinking drinks: how minimum pricing is making bottles smaller
Alcohol control policies, socioeconomic inequalities, and adolescent alcohol use
Should alcohol packaging display graphic tobacco-style health warning labels?
Are ‘Soap Operas’ driving young people to drink?
Drink-driving could soar as pubs reopen in July
COVID-19 and alcohol – consumption data strengthens case for ambitious alcohol policy
Revoking the ‘License to Drink’: Emerging evidence on mandatory sobriety
Hazardous drinkers show elevated ‘waiting impulsivity’, relative to lighter drinking controls
The Pass-Through of Alcohol Excise Taxes to Prices in OECD Countries: Filling in the evidence gap
Increasing choice to encourage the selection of non-alcoholic, rather than alcoholic, drinks
Inequalities in alcohol-related violence victimisation and what we should do about it
The label appeal: A look at industry interference in the little warning labelling study that could
Alcohol warning labels reduce sales, change minds, and increase knowledge
Hope for a Dutch MUP
Confronting the coronavirus: South Africa’s response
Evaluating the effect of individual alcohol licensing decisions on local health and crime
Time to downsize wine bottles?
Are there associations between drinking contexts and harms that are not explained by the level of alcohol consumption?
Minimum unit pricing: from the theory to the supermarket shelf
Sobriety bracelets: The new ‘must have’ criminal justice accessory?
No strangers to the bar: the drinking habits of MPs
Does the size of a wine glass affect how much we drink?
MUP – let’s not lose another decade to alcohol harm
Does knowing alcohol can cause cancer improve support alcohol policies?
Parental supply of alcohol across adolescence increases risk of alcohol-related harms in early adulthood
The alcohol harm paradox revisited on a local level
Alcohol control policies and alcohol-related traffic harm in Lithuania: a short summary of a success story
New Australian estimates of the impact of Minimum Unit Pricing
A brief window of opportunity: The case of MUP in England
Touching on a touchy subject: how older adults play down their drinking
Has pub diversification ended decades of decline?
Young risky drinkers: overrepresented as victims and perpetrators of alcohol's harms to others
Are we seeing a reversal of declining youth drinking trends in Scotland?
Dry January in France: Taking up the challenge
International trade, alcohol policy and health regulation
Minimum pricing for alcohol in Wales – will drinkers switch substances?
General Election 2019 – what do the political parties say about alcohol?
The Public Health Responsibility Deal and the challenge to effective alcohol policy
How to tackle dangerous initiation ceremonies in University?
A question of intent: Alcohol advertising campaign case studies make for sobering reading
The impact of parental drinking on children – a conversation we should start
It’s time to call time on the use of gender stereotypes in alcohol marketing
First results of regulating alcohol marketing on social media in Finland
Can we really take the politics out of alcohol tax?
The Blue Light Project
‘Untreated help seekers’ in addictions deserve attention in future research
Are young people in England still drinking less?
DrinkTank – Alcohol industry calling the shots on Australian health policy
Unpacking the politically sensitive relationship between alcohol, drugs and domestic violence
Alcohol drinking and risk of liver diseases in Chinese men: why and what do we learn from them?
Alcohol-free alcohol: A 0.0-sum endgame?
Newly defined at-risk drinkers following the change to the UK low risk drinking guidelines: who and what to do?
Alcohol causes significant harm to those other than the drinker
What does Twitter make of Minimum Unit Pricing in Scotland?
Hangovers are a financial headache for the UK economy
'When you drink more, I earn more' – fuelling the oil fund problem in Norway
Heineken honoured as a benefactor despite its misconduct in Africa
Alcohol in sport: a crusher of dreams or a helping hand?
Explaining the strong support for the Swedish alcohol retail monopoly
Understanding youth drinking in Scotland: Does Geography matter?
Using wearable cameras to track children’s exposure to alcohol marketing via product packaging
What do we really know about how MUP has affected alcohol sales in Scotland?
The declining trend in adolescent drinking has been particularly strong in the Nordic countries but differences between the countries remain
Doing harm by doing good
Preventing the cycle of alcohol-related harm
Are young people under the influence of alcohol content on TV?
A generation of hidden drinkers: What’s happening to the drinking of the over 50s?
MUP – What do we know eight months on?
Alcohol policy should be central to suicide prevention policy
Is the decline of pubs overstated?
Don't Drink and Drown
Nanny states and grown-up debates on alcohol policy
Drunk and doubly deviant? The role of gender and intoxication in sentencing assault offences
Generational divide in trends in abstention from alcohol; more young people abstaining than older people
Tell me more, tell me more – what’s this industry-led public health initiative about?
Trade magazines offer insights into Australian alcohol industry priorities and strategies
A councillor’s plea to Sajid Javid – we need MUP
Conflicts of interest and industry smear tactics in New Zealand
Reducing the Minimum Price of Beer in Ontario – Risks of the ‘Buck a Beer’ Policy
Communication of the CMO drinking guidelines in antenatal care – as simple as it sounds?
Sky’s the limit – how do you manage drunk passengers on planes?
It’s rarely been so affordable to have a pint of beer in the pub
Things can only get better?
Football World Cup: time for preventive policies in the sport settings: The FYFA project
Alcohol at sporting events? What’s the harm?
Alcohol Clinical Trial Continues to Crumble: Anheuser-Busch Pulls Its Funding
The economic impact of changes in alcohol consumption in the UK
Frequent drinkers unravelled
How common is alcohol and drug dependency across the world?
Where are public health and the alcohol industry likely to clash in the years ahead?
Communicating research on anxiety and alcohol use at Research Without Borders
Alcohol and mental health: time for concerted action
Addicted lawyers: can the insurance industry help?
Let's help pregnant women not drink
Minimum Unit Pricing: a welcome and useful form of alcohol regulation
Congressional Investigation Needed into Scientific and Ethical Corruption at NIAAA
Why do we treat alcohol and the alcohol industry so differently from Big Tobacco?
How long before we see effective alcohol advertising control?
New lower risk drinking guidelines – did they effect ‘COM-B’ determinants of behaviour change?
Alcohol actually – How broadcasters use the UK to avoid Swedish alcohol legislation
Reaching parts that others can't?
Adults only brands served up to children at the Australian Open
InterMAHP – a new way of calculating alcohol-attributable fractions
Can't handle the proof
Buy a lady a drink
Why an alcohol tax cut is a bad idea for the US
Why is the government subsidising cheap strong cider?
Government response to 2017 House of Lords licensing committee report
Why minimum unit pricing is not a tax on the poor
Super-strength lager is a beer for sipping, possibly from a wine glass – and other delusions
The dangerous mirage of the whisky Laffer curve
What is the message in Doctor Foster’s bottle?
Carthage must be destroyed
Why are girls in deprived areas six times more likely than girls in affluent areas to be injured in violence?
There is no proven safe amount of alcohol in pregnancy. No Alcohol, No Risk
By tackling cheap off-trade alcohol, we can support pubs AND reduce harmful consumption
Club Soda hosts the first-ever Mindful Drinking Festival
Alcohol liver disease – crisis on the horizon
Which drinking practices are associated with violent behaviour?
The First WHO Forum on Alcohol, Drugs and Addictive Behaviours
Sizing up KBS: Conference highlights from an early career researcher
'Our children's television viewing is bombarded with the thrills and spills of alcohol'
Alcohol advertising ban crowns comprehensive control measures adopted in Lithuania
Battle to introduce minimum alcohol prices almost over finishing line
Might innovative taxes on alcohol and other unhealthy commodity products help fund the NHS?
Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere? Comparing policies that regulate physical availability of alcohol in Australia and the UK
Assessing the potential effect of placing health messages on alcohol products: It’s too early to tell
Alcohol consumption and cardiovascular disease – the deeper you go, the more you know
What does the alcohol industry mean by ‘responsible drinking’?
Online alcohol sales are booming, but what are the implications?
What is really in your drink?
Lords: Licensing Act "needs major overhaul” but problems only half diagnosed
Fixing the UK’s alcohol taxes
Cheap cider and an alcohol duty system that incentivises harmful practice
What Family Drug and Alcohol Courts do
We don’t need the alcohol industry for a strong economy
Murder in a can
Kick alcohol sponsorship out of sport
What works on your high street? Voluntary schemes and their aims
Unitary transparency – monitoring drinking habits by the glass
Flattening the spike – drink driving at Christmas
Drink driving – a police officer’s perspective
Some inconvenient facts for the British Beer & Pub Association
Communicating the health harms of alcohol to the public
Measuring alcohol in populations
The power of the media in shaping perceptions of alcohol issues
Tackling obesity – parallels with alcohol
Drink driving: Time has come – we need a lower limit
Bang per buck – a recent history of white cider
The effect of alcohol on the probability of conception
Alcohol misuse is "everybody’s business"
Beer duty cuts – don't believe the hype
Alcohol Stories – Exploring accounts and practices of alcohol use, suicide and self-harm
Helping local areas reduce the impact of alcohol harm
London’s Night Tube: A Leap into the Unknown
Self-satisfied and self-indulgent: The IOC gives a gold medal winning performance
When does alcohol sponsorship of sport become sports sponsorship of alcohol?
Alcohol, the "elephant in the room"
Beyond ‘Ab Fab Britain’: responsible parenting and lower affordability best explain falls in underage drinking
Does drink really make you happy?
It’s time to stop work, it’s time to drink beers
The paradox of waning alcohol consumption? It’s the culture, stupid!
The ‘Baby Boomer’ effect of increased alcohol-related harm
Alcohol and pregnancy... a cross-cultural perspective
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Gerard Hastings biography
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Jonathan Shepherd biography
Jeff Collin biography
Linda Bauld biography
Lucy Bryant biography
Peter Rice biography
Jennifer Keen biography
Sarah Schoenberger biography
Crispin Acton biography
Phil Hadfield biography
Kieran Bunn biography
Sadie Boniface biography
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Blog
What has 2020 done to the UK’s alcohol consumption?
Alcohol problems and insurance
On the strengths and limitations of 'NoLo' drinks
Shrinking drinks: how minimum pricing is making bottles smaller
Alcohol control policies, socioeconomic inequalities, and adolescent alcohol use
Should alcohol packaging display graphic tobacco-style health warning labels?
Are ‘Soap Operas’ driving young people to drink?
Drink-driving could soar as pubs reopen in July
COVID-19 and alcohol – consumption data strengthens case for ambitious alcohol policy
Revoking the ‘License to Drink’: Emerging evidence on mandatory sobriety
Hazardous drinkers show elevated ‘waiting impulsivity’, relative to lighter drinking controls
The Pass-Through of Alcohol Excise Taxes to Prices in OECD Countries: Filling in the evidence gap
Increasing choice to encourage the selection of non-alcoholic, rather than alcoholic, drinks
Inequalities in alcohol-related violence victimisation and what we should do about it
The label appeal: A look at industry interference in the little warning labelling study that could
Alcohol warning labels reduce sales, change minds, and increase knowledge
Hope for a Dutch MUP
Confronting the coronavirus: South Africa’s response
Evaluating the effect of individual alcohol licensing decisions on local health and crime
Time to downsize wine bottles?
Are there associations between drinking contexts and harms that are not explained by the level of alcohol consumption?
Minimum unit pricing: from the theory to the supermarket shelf
Sobriety bracelets: The new ‘must have’ criminal justice accessory?
No strangers to the bar: the drinking habits of MPs
Does the size of a wine glass affect how much we drink?
MUP – let’s not lose another decade to alcohol harm
Does knowing alcohol can cause cancer improve support alcohol policies?
Parental supply of alcohol across adolescence increases risk of alcohol-related harms in early adulthood
The alcohol harm paradox revisited on a local level
Alcohol control policies and alcohol-related traffic harm in Lithuania: a short summary of a success story
New Australian estimates of the impact of Minimum Unit Pricing
A brief window of opportunity: The case of MUP in England
Touching on a touchy subject: how older adults play down their drinking
Has pub diversification ended decades of decline?
Young risky drinkers: overrepresented as victims and perpetrators of alcohol's harms to others
Are we seeing a reversal of declining youth drinking trends in Scotland?
Dry January in France: Taking up the challenge
International trade, alcohol policy and health regulation
Minimum pricing for alcohol in Wales – will drinkers switch substances?
General Election 2019 – what do the political parties say about alcohol?
The Public Health Responsibility Deal and the challenge to effective alcohol policy
How to tackle dangerous initiation ceremonies in University?
A question of intent: Alcohol advertising campaign case studies make for sobering reading
The impact of parental drinking on children – a conversation we should start
It’s time to call time on the use of gender stereotypes in alcohol marketing
First results of regulating alcohol marketing on social media in Finland
Can we really take the politics out of alcohol tax?
The Blue Light Project
‘Untreated help seekers’ in addictions deserve attention in future research
Are young people in England still drinking less?
DrinkTank – Alcohol industry calling the shots on Australian health policy
Unpacking the politically sensitive relationship between alcohol, drugs and domestic violence
Alcohol drinking and risk of liver diseases in Chinese men: why and what do we learn from them?
Alcohol-free alcohol: A 0.0-sum endgame?
Newly defined at-risk drinkers following the change to the UK low risk drinking guidelines: who and what to do?
Alcohol causes significant harm to those other than the drinker
What does Twitter make of Minimum Unit Pricing in Scotland?
Hangovers are a financial headache for the UK economy
'When you drink more, I earn more' – fuelling the oil fund problem in Norway
Heineken honoured as a benefactor despite its misconduct in Africa
Alcohol in sport: a crusher of dreams or a helping hand?
Explaining the strong support for the Swedish alcohol retail monopoly
Understanding youth drinking in Scotland: Does Geography matter?
Using wearable cameras to track children’s exposure to alcohol marketing via product packaging
What do we really know about how MUP has affected alcohol sales in Scotland?
The declining trend in adolescent drinking has been particularly strong in the Nordic countries but differences between the countries remain
Doing harm by doing good
Preventing the cycle of alcohol-related harm
Are young people under the influence of alcohol content on TV?
A generation of hidden drinkers: What’s happening to the drinking of the over 50s?
MUP – What do we know eight months on?
Alcohol policy should be central to suicide prevention policy
Is the decline of pubs overstated?
Don't Drink and Drown
Nanny states and grown-up debates on alcohol policy
Drunk and doubly deviant? The role of gender and intoxication in sentencing assault offences
Generational divide in trends in abstention from alcohol; more young people abstaining than older people
Tell me more, tell me more – what’s this industry-led public health initiative about?
Trade magazines offer insights into Australian alcohol industry priorities and strategies
A councillor’s plea to Sajid Javid – we need MUP
Conflicts of interest and industry smear tactics in New Zealand
Reducing the Minimum Price of Beer in Ontario – Risks of the ‘Buck a Beer’ Policy
Communication of the CMO drinking guidelines in antenatal care – as simple as it sounds?
Sky’s the limit – how do you manage drunk passengers on planes?
It’s rarely been so affordable to have a pint of beer in the pub
Things can only get better?
Football World Cup: time for preventive policies in the sport settings: The FYFA project
Alcohol at sporting events? What’s the harm?
Alcohol Clinical Trial Continues to Crumble: Anheuser-Busch Pulls Its Funding
The economic impact of changes in alcohol consumption in the UK
Frequent drinkers unravelled
How common is alcohol and drug dependency across the world?
Where are public health and the alcohol industry likely to clash in the years ahead?
Communicating research on anxiety and alcohol use at Research Without Borders
Alcohol and mental health: time for concerted action
Addicted lawyers: can the insurance industry help?
Let's help pregnant women not drink
Minimum Unit Pricing: a welcome and useful form of alcohol regulation
Congressional Investigation Needed into Scientific and Ethical Corruption at NIAAA
Why do we treat alcohol and the alcohol industry so differently from Big Tobacco?
How long before we see effective alcohol advertising control?
New lower risk drinking guidelines – did they effect ‘COM-B’ determinants of behaviour change?
Alcohol actually – How broadcasters use the UK to avoid Swedish alcohol legislation
Reaching parts that others can't?
Adults only brands served up to children at the Australian Open
InterMAHP – a new way of calculating alcohol-attributable fractions
Can't handle the proof
Buy a lady a drink
Why an alcohol tax cut is a bad idea for the US
Why is the government subsidising cheap strong cider?
Government response to 2017 House of Lords licensing committee report
Why minimum unit pricing is not a tax on the poor
Super-strength lager is a beer for sipping, possibly from a wine glass – and other delusions
The dangerous mirage of the whisky Laffer curve
What is the message in Doctor Foster’s bottle?
Carthage must be destroyed
Why are girls in deprived areas six times more likely than girls in affluent areas to be injured in violence?
There is no proven safe amount of alcohol in pregnancy. No Alcohol, No Risk
By tackling cheap off-trade alcohol, we can support pubs AND reduce harmful consumption
Club Soda hosts the first-ever Mindful Drinking Festival
Alcohol liver disease – crisis on the horizon
Which drinking practices are associated with violent behaviour?
The First WHO Forum on Alcohol, Drugs and Addictive Behaviours
Sizing up KBS: Conference highlights from an early career researcher
'Our children's television viewing is bombarded with the thrills and spills of alcohol'
Alcohol advertising ban crowns comprehensive control measures adopted in Lithuania
Battle to introduce minimum alcohol prices almost over finishing line
Might innovative taxes on alcohol and other unhealthy commodity products help fund the NHS?
Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere? Comparing policies that regulate physical availability of alcohol in Australia and the UK
Assessing the potential effect of placing health messages on alcohol products: It’s too early to tell
Alcohol consumption and cardiovascular disease – the deeper you go, the more you know
What does the alcohol industry mean by ‘responsible drinking’?
Online alcohol sales are booming, but what are the implications?
What is really in your drink?
Lords: Licensing Act "needs major overhaul” but problems only half diagnosed
Fixing the UK’s alcohol taxes
Cheap cider and an alcohol duty system that incentivises harmful practice
What Family Drug and Alcohol Courts do
We don’t need the alcohol industry for a strong economy
Murder in a can
Kick alcohol sponsorship out of sport
What works on your high street? Voluntary schemes and their aims
Unitary transparency – monitoring drinking habits by the glass
Flattening the spike – drink driving at Christmas
Drink driving – a police officer’s perspective
Some inconvenient facts for the British Beer & Pub Association
Communicating the health harms of alcohol to the public
Measuring alcohol in populations
The power of the media in shaping perceptions of alcohol issues
Tackling obesity – parallels with alcohol
Drink driving: Time has come – we need a lower limit
Bang per buck – a recent history of white cider
The effect of alcohol on the probability of conception
Alcohol misuse is "everybody’s business"
Beer duty cuts – don't believe the hype
Alcohol Stories – Exploring accounts and practices of alcohol use, suicide and self-harm
Helping local areas reduce the impact of alcohol harm
London’s Night Tube: A Leap into the Unknown
Self-satisfied and self-indulgent: The IOC gives a gold medal winning performance
When does alcohol sponsorship of sport become sports sponsorship of alcohol?
Alcohol, the "elephant in the room"
Beyond ‘Ab Fab Britain’: responsible parenting and lower affordability best explain falls in underage drinking
Does drink really make you happy?
It’s time to stop work, it’s time to drink beers
The paradox of waning alcohol consumption? It’s the culture, stupid!
The ‘Baby Boomer’ effect of increased alcohol-related harm
Alcohol and pregnancy... a cross-cultural perspective
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