Policies

The COVID hangover: more urgency is needed to tackle alcohol harm as an indirect effect of the pandemic

Changes in drinking patterns during the pandemic are likely to lead to significant increases in alcohol-related disease cases and subsequent death. Here Dr Sadie Boniface...

Everything you wanted to know about minimum pricing, in one place

The World Health Organization published a comprehensive review of minimum pricing policies on alcohol, including summaries of the most recent evidence on their impact for...

Minimum unit pricing and harmful drinking: Mixed findings should not override the bigger picture

A study on the impact of Scotland's minimum unit pricing on harmful drinkers and those with alcohol dependence received a lot of press attention lambasting...

What can the UK learn from Australia and New Zealand’s fight for mandatory alcohol warning labels?

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...

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...

Help or harm? Exploring the expanding ‘No and Low’ alcohol market in the UK

Dr Emily Nicholls investigates the marketing and consumption of no and low alcohol products and discusses her new report.

Under the influence: is the alcohol industry using the World Trade Organization to lobby against alcohol policies?

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...

A Drop in the Ocean: Corrective Taxes on Alcohol in 25 Large Economies

Corrective taxes on alcohol are very low compared to the economic costs of death and disability in almost all countries, and almost all advanced economies...

Most adolescents support improved alcohol labelling

With the UK Government soon to consult on mandatory labelling on alcoholic products, this new study looks at adolescent support for improved labelling, including units...

Does alcohol make you fat?

The relationship between alcohol and obesity is extremely complex. Dr Gary O’Donovan looks at what the UK Government can do in their 'war on obesity'...

Putting safety first

The Police Federation's Tim Rogers questions why England and Wales have the highest drink drive limits in Europe and calls on the Government to end...

Preventing harmful alcohol consumption is an excellent investment for countries

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published an in-depth book that highlights the huge cost of alcohol harm across 52 countries, and models...