Health

Alcohol causes significant harm to those other than the drinker

We need to screen adults for social risk factors if we are to combat the secondhand effects of alcohol

Alcohol in sport: a crusher of dreams or a helping hand?

The relationship between athletes and alcohol is perhaps not as straightforward as it seems at first glance, says academic (and runner) Sian Edwards

Doing harm by doing good

In the wake of the Heineken scandal, Kate Robaina says that the façade of corporate social responsibility initiatives extends far beyond that of the Dutch...

Preventing the cycle of alcohol-related harm

To meet the Secretary of State's goal of truly prioritising prevention, we need a comprehensive new alcohol strategy, argues Dame Professor Kumar

Alcohol policy should be central to suicide prevention policy

Few suicide prevention policies address the influence of alcohol in the process – Nicola Kalk suggests how we might address this issue in the UK

Don’t Drink and Drown

Royal Life Saving Society Chief Exec Di Steer draws attention to a tragic issue

Nanny states and grown-up debates on alcohol policy

Reducing arguments to simplistic – even incoherent – claims and accusations is not good for reasoned, public deliberation, says Professor John Coggon

Tell me more, tell me more – what’s this industry-led public health initiative about?

How useful are the messages given by Public Health England’s partnership initiative with industry sponsored Drinkaware? Researcher Colin Angus finds out

Communication of the CMO drinking guidelines in antenatal care – as simple as it sounds?

More work is needed to explore midwives' efforts work in implementing the guidelines

Things can only get better?

Paul Hayes, outgoing chief executive of Collective Voice, offers his reflections on how alcohol policy has developed over the course of his career

Frequent drinkers unravelled

They may think themselves responsible, but older people may not recognise that their drinking could be a risk to their health, argues Bethany Kate Bareham

How common is alcohol and drug dependency across the world?

Hannah Ritchie presents a global picture of the state of substance dependency in five colourful charts

Communicating research on anxiety and alcohol use at Research Without Borders

Maddy Dyer invites you to contemplate the relationship between both factors – at her mock pub

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