Issue No 2 2012

On the cover of this issue

• Health Select Committee calls for tougher controls on alcohol advertising

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Also in this issue:

• Minimum pricing remains in the spotlight

• Labour plan to entice Scots booze cruisers

• Scotch whisky industry challenges minimum pricing of alcohol

• New study suggests medical staff overlook alcohol problems if patients are not drunk

• New powers to tackle problems of late night drinking

• New ‘traffic light’ test could save lives with earlier diagnosis of liver disease

• “Health warnings needed on alcohol”

• Cutting daily alcohol intake to half a unit (5g) “could save 4600 lives a year”

• John Bercow: more MPs seeking help for alcoholism

• Alcohol consumption and Harm in England in 2010

• New Alcohol Profiles for England provide national map of alcohol-related harms

• New report: Poorest “left behind” in fight against unhealthy lifestyles

• Alcohol Awareness Week: 19-26 November 2012

• Alcohol consumption and affordability

• Irish Republic and Northern Ireland come together to hold first all-island conference on alcohol

• Ireland: new doctors’ policy group on alcohol to recommend minimum pricing

• Alcohol problems account for a quarter of Scottish intensive care unit admissions

• Alcohol could account for nearly 2 million emergency care department visits in England and Wales each year

• Experts update addiction treatment guidelines

• Public Accounts Committee criticises HMRC over failure to tackle alcohol duty fraud

• Online alcohol threat to Britain’s youth revealed

• Baroness Newlove - Ten communities to tackle binge and underage drinking unveiled

• Proportion of schoolchildren drinking, smoking and taking drugs fell over the past decade, says new report

• Youthful non-drinking - alive and well but socially invisible

• Glass shape influences how quickly we drink alcohol

• Demon drink?

• Temperance and the working class

• Suffolk Constabulary try to stop sales of super strength drinks