Consumption

By tackling cheap off-trade alcohol, we can support pubs AND reduce harmful consumption

New report shows that there is a common ground between the pub trade and public health advocates

Club Soda hosts the first-ever Mindful Drinking Festival

Inaugural event held as part of a movement to get people to be comfortable with not drinking alcohol

Alcohol consumption and cardiovascular disease – the deeper you go, the more you know

A blogpost based on BMJ paper “Association between clinically recorded alcohol consumption and initial presentation of 12 cardiovascular diseases: population based cohort study using linked...

Unitary transparency – monitoring drinking habits by the glass

Dr Richard De Visser explains the results of his latest study looking into the effects of unit-marked drinking glasses on people's alcohol consumption, and what...

Measuring alcohol in populations

Better monitoring of alcohol consumption is needed; technological advances may soon provide extremely valuable information about context of drinking, says Dr Annie Britton

Bang per buck – a recent history of white cider

As the Alcohol Health Alliance releases a report showing that 7.5 litres of high-strength white cider can be bought for the price of a cinema ticket, Dr Peter Rice...

The paradox of waning alcohol consumption? It’s the culture, stupid!

Levels of global alcohol consumption have flatlined. Cultural changes may be one major reason why, says Dr Joan Costa-i-Font