Bringing together evidence, policy and practice to reduce alcohol harm
Ethnic minorities and alcohol
Summary Introduction According to the 2011 Census, one in five people in England and Wales belong to an ethnic group other than White British [1]....
Alcohol and health inequalities
Summary Introduction Health inequalities are usually defined as systematic differences in health outcomes between socioeconomic groups, categorised by indicators such as household income, educational qualifications,...
Men and alcohol
Summary Introduction Men are more likely to drink alcohol, more likely to drink at levels above recommended low-risk guidelines, and more likely to have alcohol...
Women and alcohol
Summary Introduction In recent decades, the historical gender gap between men and women’s alcohol consumption has closed. 79% of women in England reported drinking in...
Alcohol and the family
Summary Alcohol can impact family life in a wide variety of ways. To understand, we must consider: Children and parents: Relationships and partners: Families and...
Alcohol-related crime reporting – what do we know?
Summary Introduction The level of alcohol-related crime that occurs in the UK annually is likely to be an underestimate for several reasons linked to the...
Alcohol, the emergency services and the criminal justice system
Summary Introduction Survey data suggests that alcohol takes up most of emergency service frontline staff’s time, at huge cost to the UK taxpayer. Emergency service...
Crime and disorder in the night time economy
Summary Introduction The most recent official statistics on violent crime in England and Wales found that vast majority of violent incidents that occurred over the...
Domestic abuse, sexual assault, and child abuse
Summary Introduction There is a large and growing body of literature that suggests alcohol is a main factor in many, if not the majority of...
Driving factors of alcohol-related crime
Summary Introduction Aspects of the on- and off-trade have been identified as influencing rates of alcohol-related crime. In recent years, two important parallel trends in...
Alcohol and air travel
Summary Introduction There has been increased focus on the problems caused by drunk, disruptive passengers in recent years in the media and amongst UK parliamentarians....
A brief history of drink-driving policy
Summary Introduction Otherwise known as Driving Under the Influence (DUI) or Driving While Intoxicated (DWI), drink-driving in the UK is defined as the act of...
The alcohol industry: Social and political activities
Summary As well as making and selling alcohol, many participants in the alcohol industry seek to influence politics and society in different ways. This factsheet...
The alcohol industry: an overview
Summary Introduction This briefing provides the following overview of the alcohol industry: What is the alcohol industry? The alcohol industry can be defined in different...
Alcohol-related accidents and injuries
Summary Introduction Alcohol-related health harm is not just limited to chronic disease or physical illness. The presence of alcohol in the body has also been...
How alcohol morbidity and morbidity rates are calculated in the UK
Summary Introduction Within the United Kingdom, data on alcohol-related mortality and morbidity are compiled by the health statistics divisions of separate agencies for England, Wales,...
The physical and mental health effects of alcohol
Summary Introduction Alcohol affects health in a variety of ways; virtually every system of the human body can be damaged by its harmful consumption. The...
Measure for measure: calculating alcohol consumption
Summary Introduction Data on alcohol consumption is usually calculated by the self-reported drinking habits of randomly selected respondents in surveys, or by collated receipts of...
A brief history of the UK’s low risk drinking guidelines
Summary Introduction The current low risk drinking guidelines were introduced in 2016, the product of an inquiry initiated by the House of Commons Science and...
Licensing in practice: the availability of alcohol in UK society
Summary Introduction The legal availability of alcohol is generally accepted to be one of the main controls on levels of alcohol consumption and harm. Licensing...
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