Availability

Acceptable, accessible and affordable – but at what cost?

Alice Wiseman, Director of Public Health for Gateshead, discusses why it is becoming increasingly important to implement evidence-based policies to reduce alcohol consumption and harm.

Alcohol availability and accessibility around schools in Ireland

A new study has found that alcohol outlets are often in close proximity to schools in Ireland, which is likely to normalise alcohol use among...

Alcohol control policies for everyone?

The systematic review and meta-analysis looked at the efficacy of different alcohol control policies and how they could benefit different groups in society.

Do the size of servings, glasses and bottles influence how much people drink?

A review of 15 studies and 1 review to determine whether reducing glass and bottle sizes reduces overall consumption of alcohol.

“Pub-ageddon!” How alcohol licensing changes during COVID-19 lockdown were portrayed in UK news media

Changes in alcohol licensing throughout the COVID lockdowns were portrayed by the UK media in different ways as the pandemic developed. Generally this moved from...

The case for repoliticising alcohol use and harms

Journalist and PhD candidate James Wilt discusses how the profit seeking of the alcohol industry has led to a public health crisis. Wilt explains how...

Healthy life expectancy: why tackling alcohol is key

If the Government is serious about extending healthy life expectancy for all, it must get serious about tackling alcohol. With the Health Disparities White Paper...

2012’s Alcohol Strategy 10 years on: was the ‘GAS’ a lot of hot air?

Our Head of Research looks at 2012's Alcohol Strategy a decade on, highlighting the Government's inertia and failure to achieve the vast majority of what...

Has MUP in Scotland reduced alcohol-related crime in the first 21 months? Reflections on an evaluation

A recent report suggested Scotland's minimum unit pricing has done little to reduce alcohol-related crime. Dr Lightowlers and Ms Bryant look at the limitations of...

Is it time to help alcohol retailers make more money by selling less alcohol?

Public health bodies need to focus on more specific policy aims in order to make a difference and educational campaigns can develop the necessary climate...

What COVID-19 restrictions tell us about violence and how alcohol availability affects this

The 2020 coronavirus lockdowns gave researchers in Cardiff a rare opportunity to look at how alcohol-related violence in and out of homes changed compared to...

Increasing choice to encourage the selection of non-alcoholic, rather than alcoholic, drinks

Originally published on the BMC blog

Confronting the coronavirus: South Africa’s response

It seems the South African Government, now more than ever, is willing to consider a re-evaluation of the liquor regulatory environment

Evaluating the effect of individual alcohol licensing decisions on local health and crime

Licensing authority control of alcohol availability can have a positive impact on health and crime in a local vicinity

What does Twitter make of Minimum Unit Pricing in Scotland?

New research gauges the opinions of the Twitterati on flagship alcohol policy

Explaining the strong support for the Swedish alcohol retail monopoly

For the twenty-third year in a row, the Swedish state-run alcohol retail monopoly, Systembolaget, was ranked most trusted institution in Sweden. Above the police, universities...

Alcohol at sporting events? What’s the harm?

In the wake of reports of violent brawls at horse-racing and rugby venues, Habib Kadiri asks if we should level the playing field between football...

Minimum Unit Pricing: a welcome and useful form of alcohol regulation

MUP is a welcome step in the right direction, says Steve Rolles

Government response to 2017 House of Lords licensing committee report

Review of Lords licensing report offers few commitments, says James Morris

Carthage must be destroyed

'The struggle to stop the UK drowning in cheap alcohol can be won, but it requires exceptional powers of endurance,' writes professor Rob Poole