IAS News Archive - 2009

Listed below are a number of articles which have appeared on the Institute of Alcohol Studies Website.

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• 181209 - Drink surveys ‘grossly underestimate’ nation’s drinking by equivalent of 44 million bottles of wine per year

• 171209 - Parents Back Alcohol Free Childhood

• 151209 - Child alcohol crime increased by 28% in four years

• 081209 - Liver disease deaths increase by 12% in just three years

• 261109 - Alcohol Bill introduced in Scottish Parliament

• 021109 - Prof David Nutt sacked from Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs

• 291009 - Fears of drink spiking distract from the dangers of alcohol

• 231009 - Alcohol at 14p per unit

• 191009 - Future Proof - Can we Afford the Cost of Dirnking Too Much?

• 110909 - The BMA calls for a comprehensive alcohol control strategy

• 140809 - Alcohol blamed for rise in oral cancer rates

• 140809 - Fall in Alcohol Sales

• 300709 - Summer drink drive campaign results

• 230709 - Campaign for Smarter Drinking

• 260609 - Alcohol is responsible for 11% of male deaths and 2% of female deaths in Europe

• 200509 - Statistics on Alcohol, England 2009 released

• 130509 - Government consultation on alcohol sales and promotion launched.

• 060509 - Alcohol in Britain: trends show young men are binge-drinking less, but women are binge-drinking more

• 010509 - Alcohol related hospital admissions up by 69% since 2002

• 270409 - Health Select Committee Inquiry into Alcohol

• 220409 - Alcohol taxation increased by 2% in the Budget

• 080409 - Low price alcohol still No 1 problem, say NHS staff

• 300309 - UK teen binge drinking is serious and chronic

• 160309 - Cheap alcohol is killing us and our quality of life, says Chief Medical Officer

• 060309 - Licensed trade body telling stories about tax

• 020309 - Changing Scotland’s Relationship with Alcohol: A Framework for Action.

• 240209 - Latest Scottish alcohol statistics released: rising levels
  of harm.

• 020209 - House of Lords Sleaze Probe

• 290109 - Five-Point Plan for Alcohol-Free Childhood

• 270109 - Rise in Alcohol-related Deaths Levelling out

• 0109 - Getting to grips with substance misuse among young people.
  A NHS report from the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse.

• 230109 - Over a third of adults exceed regular daily drinking limit
  ONS News Release January 2009

• 160109 - Current licensing practices may have contributed to an increase in “pre-loading” among young people

• 160109 - A new meta-analysis shows that alcohol taxes have a clear effect on drinking