Institute of Alcohol Studies

“It was never really covered in my nursing degree, how would you support somebody with tobacco addiction?”

On the Alcohol Alert podcast, Fresh and Balance’s Ailsa Rutter shares her personal story and reflects on the history of tobacco control.

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

“The government needs to look at the low cost of alcohol in supermarkets primarily. Certainly the taxation in supermarkets needs to be looked at to bring about some kind of equilibrium.”

This from former pub landlord Patrick Hughes in BBC News:

A welcome whole-system approach in Liverpool City Council’s new Alcohol Strategy: alongside prevention, treatment and community safety, it commits to strengthening recovery services and tackling the wider factors that drive harm.

🔗@lpoolcouncil blog:

“Participants felt successful examples of policy change to tackle unhealthy commodities have usually been supported by an ‘evidence jigsaw’.”

Our latest blog explores what evidence helps turn public health proposals into policy.

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