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Analysing the responses to the World Health Organization’s alcohol strategy consultation, Chiara Rinaldi highlights the difference in how stakeholders frame alcohol consumption and harm. Read more »
How much does the alcohol industry profit due to underage drinking? Dr Trangenstein and Dr Eck look at this question and discuss what should be done with these profits. Read more »
Professor Kaner assesses how minimum unit pricing in Scotland and Wales is changing consumption patterns and harmful drinking habits. Read more »
A new and more accurate method of calculating alcohol-related ambulance callouts shows the extent of alcohol’s burden on our emergency services. Read more »
A major obstacle for public health bodies is challenging powerful transnational alcohol corporations: a story of David and Goliath. Read more »
Dr Kim Donoghue looks at drug prescription rates for people receiving alcohol treatment and assesses why rates are so low. Read more »
The amount of Guinness advertising during the 2019 Six Nations was enormous and led to huge exposure of alcohol advertising to children. Dr Barker’s study looks at this exposure and its likely consequences. Read more »
People from lower socioeconomic groups suffer greater rates of alcohol-related hospitalisations. Jennifer Boyd’s study reviewed explanations and theories for why this is the case. Read more »
Richard Cooke and Emma Davies introduce us to a broad range of research into the psychological approach of understanding alcohol consumption.
Professor Cynthia Mohr looks at how university students in the US have used alcohol as a coping mechanism in a response to loneliness and social isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more »