The alcohol industry provides materials for schools to educate children about alcohol harm. This study highlights the bias nature of these materials, which normalise alcohol consumption and focus on individual responsibility and peer-pressure, while ignoring obligations of the alcohol industry to act ethically and safely and the role of governments to take actions to protect people. Read more »
Researchers’ contact with the alcohol industry can range from short conversations at conferences, to attacks in the media and even legal threats. Here Dr Mitchell details the range of experiences and argues that more research is needed about the industry’s involvement in science, as well as more protection for those engaging in such research. Read more »
Australia and New Zealand struggled for years to bring in mandatory pregnancy warning labels on alcohol products. Maddie Heenan looks at what lessons other countries can learn from their ultimate success. Read more »
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 the strategy promised. Read more »
World Trade Organization member states regularly use alcohol industry arguments to prevent and delay the implementation of effective alcohol control policies. Here Dr Barlow explains the findings of her study. Read more »
Analysing the responses to the World Health Organization’s alcohol strategy consultation, Chiara Rinaldi highlights the difference in how stakeholders frame alcohol consumption and harm. Read more »
How much does the alcohol industry profit due to underage drinking? Dr Trangenstein and Dr Eck look at this question and discuss what should be done with these profits. Read more »
A major obstacle for public health bodies is challenging powerful transnational alcohol corporations: a story of David and Goliath. Read more »
Ben Hawkins writes about the pricing policy’s short lived time in the spotlight Read more »
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Arianna Andreangeli asks whether the current crisis of the WTO appellate body is likely to have an impact on this complex equation? Read more »
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Why is the Norwegian prime minister painted on walls in Uganda? Nils Garnes of IOGT explains Read more »
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The issue may seem more complex than first appears, says Aveek Bhattacharya Read more »
How useful are the messages given by Public Health England’s partnership initiative with industry sponsored Drinkaware? Researcher Colin Angus finds out Read more »
Research finds profits prioritised over public health Read more »
A case involving a blogger that goes right to the heart of the NZ political establishment Read more »
Result of CAMRA poll should be taken with caution, warns Aveek Bhattacharya Read more »
Part two of the scandal covered by Dr Michael Siegel Read more »
Question lies at the heart of new ‘Brexit Battlegrounds’ report Read more »
The personal view of one professor close to the controversy Read more »
The claim that alcohol can be used safely while tobacco cannot must be called into question, writes Ben Hawkins Read more »
The Norwegian government has announced that it cannot support The Global Fund’s latest venture with Heineken – will the Dutch follow suit? Read more »
‘The struggle to stop the UK drowning in cheap alcohol can be won, but it requires exceptional powers of endurance,’ writes professor Rob Poole Read more »
What does the alcohol industry mean by ‘responsible drinking’, asks Nason Maani-Hessari Read more »
Cutting alcohol duty represents a false economy, argues Aveek Bhattacharya Read more »
Jon Foster explores the discrepancy between what corporate-friendly alcohol initiatives claim to do and what they actually achieve Read more »
The duty escalator is not a pantomime villain, and the BBPA is wrong to portray it as such, writes Aveek Bhattacharya Read more »
The Olympics’ unhealthy relationship with junk food and alcohol continues Read more »