Institute of Alcohol Studies

🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Participants Needed: Have your say on alcohol marketing and LGBTQ+ communities!

We are recruiting LGBTQ+ participants to take part in a focus group exploring perceptions of alcohol marketing targeted at LGBTQ+ communities. The study will involve:

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Today, Wales joins Scotland with a 65p minimum unit price for alcohol. Welsh Govt says updating the rate, which had been eroded by inflation, could prevent over 900 deaths and reduce alcohol harms among thousands.

🔗 WalesOnline:

“We still haven’t done enough to really reach the population in terms of the scales of harm of alcohol.”

Ailsa Rutter, Director of Fresh & Balance, talks the rarity of the northeast’s hard-hitting health campaigns on the Alcohol Alert podcast.

🎧 https://www.ias.org.uk/podcast/the-tobacco-and-vapes-act-and-how-alcohol-is-being-left-behind/