Health

Alcohol and mental health: time for concerted action

The links are well known, but we need leadership to change things for the better, says Andy Bell

Addicted lawyers: can the insurance industry help?

Insurers may be well placed to step in where support groups struggle, writes Jonathan Goodliffe

Let’s help pregnant women not drink

Women receive too many conflicting messages. Let's just stick to the facts, urges Catherine Gray

New lower risk drinking guidelines – did they effect ‘COM-B’ determinants of behaviour change?

It is unlikely that the aim of informing healthy drinking choices was met, writes Abigail Stevely

InterMAHP – a new way of calculating alcohol-attributable fractions

The International Model of Alcohol Harms and Policies is a new research tool for estimating alcohol harms

Super-strength lager is a beer for sipping, possibly from a wine glass – and other delusions

Jeremy Swain hopes for change to the a tax regime in the 2017 Autumn Budget that will deal with the devastation wreaked by high strength...

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

Why are girls in deprived areas six times more likely than girls in affluent areas to be injured in violence?

Professor Jonathan Shepherd describes discoveries from the Violence Society Group’s investigations into the issue and reveals how alcohol plays a role

There is no proven safe amount of alcohol in pregnancy. No Alcohol, No Risk

Sandra Butcher reminds us to take a more sober view of findings of the recent research into the effects of alcohol on pregnancy

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 liver disease – crisis on the horizon

We need to tackle the rising levels of mortality cause by alcoholic liver disease – and fast, warns Professor Roger Williams

The First WHO Forum on Alcohol, Drugs and Addictive Behaviours

This inaugural public health debate illuminates challenges and opportunities, says Lucy Westerman

Might innovative taxes on alcohol and other unhealthy commodity products help fund the NHS?

Social Policy scholars from the University of Edinburgh ask whether the public is willing to spend more in so-called 'sin taxes' in order to fund...

Assessing the potential effect of placing health messages on alcohol products: It’s too early to tell

Louise Hassan's project hopes to feed into the policy debate surrounding whether or not alcohol warning labels should be introduced

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...

What is really in your drink?

Eurocare welcomes the European Commission's report recognising a need for better alcohol labelling. But does it go far enough?

Cheap cider and an alcohol duty system that incentivises harmful practice

Away from the "cheap political posturing", policymakers' decisions on alcohol taxes have real health consequences for people’s lives, says researcher Dr John Holmes

Murder in a can

Mike Nicholas of Thames Reach writes of the destructive effect of high-strength alcohol on the lives of homeless rough sleepers

Communicating the health harms of alcohol to the public

As Alcohol Awareness Week 2016 begins, Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, chair of the Alcohol Health Alliance and special advisor on alcohol to the RCP, explains...