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1999 Budget Excise Duties Brown acused of political cynicism

1999 Budget Excise Duties – Brown accused of political cynicism The Chancellor of the Exchequer decision to freeze excise duties on alcohol while raising them...

National Alcohol Strategy – Press Statement By Institute of Alcohol Studies

National Alcohol Strategy – Press Statement By Institute of Alcohol Studies A focus on the health problems caused by alcohol to the virtual exclusion of...

Institute of Alcohol Studies Challenges Government over Millennium Binge Government proposals ‘Against Public Interest’

Institute of Alcohol Studies Challenges Government over Millennium Binge Government proposals ‘Against Public Interest’. Government Ministers are being challenged by the IAS to provide assurances...

Lowering Drink Drive Limit Could Save Over 200 Lives A Year

Lowering Drink Drive Limit Could Save Over 200 Lives A Year Lowering the drink drive limit is the most important element in the package of...

The IAS Welcomes New Drink Drive Proposals

The IAS Welcomes New Drink Drive Proposals The Institute of Alcohol Studies (IAS) today welcomed the Government’s proposals to combat drink driving, especially the lowering...

UK Presidency of the Council of Ministers gives Britain the opportunity to introduce a 50mg limit

UK Presidency of the Council of Ministers gives Britain the opportunity to introduce a 50mg limit. A reduction in the Drink Drive limit to 50...

Barbara Castle’s Social Revolution – May Have Saved Over 62,000 Lives

Barbara Castle’s Social Revolution – May Have Saved Over 62,000 Lives “Everyone has cause to be grateful for the courage of Barbara Castle who pioneered...

Luncheon to honour the Rt Hon Baroness Castle and the 30th Anniversary of the introduction of the breath test

Luncheon to honour the Rt Hon Baroness Castle and the 30th Anniversary of the introduction of the breath test To mark the 30th anniversary of...

George Howarth Serves up a ‘Bucks Fizz’

George Howarth Serves up a ‘Bucks Fizz’ “George Howarth, Home Office Minister, has served a bucks fizz with his measures to deal with alcopops”, says...

Missed opportunity to curb underage drinking

Missed opportunity to curb underage drinking The Institute of Alcohol Studies expressed disappointment at the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s refusal to hike the tax on...

Alcohol-related death & disability ranks in world order with measles, tuberculosis and malaria

Alcohol-related death & disability ranks in world order with measles, tuberculosis and malaria Alcohol causes three to four per cent of global death and disability...

The ‘Alcopops’ Scandal

The ‘Alcopops’ Scandal The drinks industry has behaved so cynically and irresponsibly in promoting ‘alcopops’ despite or perhaps because of their attraction to children and...

Drink drive cases up over Christmas – IAS Comment

Drink drive cases up over Christmas – IAS Comment The 18 per cent increase in the number of motorists caught drinking and driving over the...

A 50mg limit could produce a saving of 200 lives each year

A 50mg limit could produce a saving of 200 lives each year The increase in the number of alcohol-related road deaths in 1995 may not...