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Medicines to support recovery from alcohol: are they being used?
Dr Kim Donoghue looks at drug prescription rates for people receiving alcohol treatment and assesses why rates are so low. Read more »
Advertising ‘Greatness’? Guinness marketing and exposure in the 2019 Guinness Six Nations
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 »
Why are the disadvantaged at greater risk of alcohol harm despite often drinking less than the advantaged?
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 »
What has psychology taught us about alcohol so far and what should we do next? – Part 1 of our series on the Palgrave Handbook
Richard Cooke and Emma Davies introduce us to a broad range of research into the psychological approach of understanding alcohol consumption.
The COVID-19 Pandemic in the US, sheltering-in-place and university students: A cautionary tale of loneliness and drinking to cope
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 »
Poor representativeness in alcohol cohorts: the nail in the coffin of the ‘heart health benefits’ of moderate drinking?
Professor Emmanual Stamatakis wonders whether the claims of moderate drinking’s benefits have been premised on faulty data
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What can we learn from repeat drink drivers’ attitudes and beliefs about drink-driving?
Dr Andrea Mohan discusses some of the findings from the PACTS study into drink-driving published earlier this year Read more »
What has 2020 done to the UK’s alcohol consumption?
Alcohol stats expert Colin Angus trawls through a lot of data to work out Brits’ drinking habits in this exceptional year Read more »
Alcohol problems and insurance
Insurance is not usually associated with alcohol problems, but there are good reasons for focusing on the two subjects in conjunction, as they give rise to multiple problems, argues Jonathan Goodliffe Read more »