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Promoting an informed debate around alcohol’s impact on society

Our purpose is to advance the use of the best available evidence in public policy decisions on alcohol.


12413The politics of inaction: why alcohol policy can’t wait

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The politics of inaction: why alcohol policy can’t wait

Jem Roberts

11th July 2025

12378Alcohol’s harm is likely underestimated and its benefits inflated: Lessons from recent expert reports

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Alcohol’s harm is likely underestimated and its benefits inflated: Lessons from recent expert reports

Professor Tim Stockwell, Isabella Priore, and Dr Pek Kei Im

9th July 2025

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Spin the bottle: How the UK alcohol industry twists the facts on harm and responsibility

June 2025

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If the government wants to save lives and show results before the next General Election, it needs to act now.

In our latest blog, Jem Roberts explains how MUP and alcohol duty increases – left out of the 10-Year Plan – could deliver rapid change.

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Ongoing alcohol problems – not age, gender or criminal history – was the strongest predictor of alcohol-involved homicide.

That’s one finding from a major study of 205 convicted offenders.

Public health matters. Read more:

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The 10 Year Health Plan “does not adequately address the commercial determinants of ill health. Putting the onus on the individual under the name of choice is unfair when they do not have anything reasonable to choose from that they can afford.”

– Baroness Finlay

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“Alcohol has been a Group 1 carcinogen since 1988…this week marked the first time MPs have debated alcohol and cancer, nearly 40 years later.”

We need clear labelling, public awareness—and a national strategy.

Powerful piece from Labour MP @CatSmithMP.

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