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    • 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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  • Home
  • Who we are
    • Gerard Hastings biography
    • Rob Baggott biography
    • Michael Carr biography
    • Katherine Severi biography
    • Habib Kadiri biography
    • Stephen Orchard biography
    • Janet Tollington biography
    • Marsha Morgan biography
    • Petra Meier biography
    • David Jernigan biography
    • Jonathan Shepherd biography
    • Jeff Collin biography
    • Linda Bauld biography
    • Aveek Bhattacharya biography
    • Lucy Bryant biography
    • Peter Rice biography
    • Jennifer Keen biography
    • Sarah Schoenberger biography
    • Crispin Acton biography
    • Phil Hadfield biography
    • Kieran Bunn biography
    • Richard Fernandez biography
    • Sadie Boniface biography
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  • Alcohol knowledge centre
    • Consumption
    • Health impacts
    • Crime and social impacts
    • Economic impacts
    • Drink-driving
    • Price
    • Availability and licensing
    • Marketing
    • Health service response
    • Underage drinking
    • Information and education
    • Alcohol and women
    • Alcohol in the workplace
    • Alcohol and older people
    • Young people and alcohol
    • Socioeconomic groups
    • The alcohol industry
  • Blog
    • 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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