Institute of Alcohol Studies

Drinkaware’s CEO questions whether the WHO’s ‘Best Buys’ are needed to reduce alcohol harm, when “a number of the big trends are already going in the right direction.”

2024 saw the 4th highest alcohol death rate since 2001, hardly a positive trend.

Alcohol causes 146,000 cancers a year across the EU – 16% of all cancers at the sites it’s linked to.

A new study confirms what we’ve long known: taxing alcohol, restricting marketing, and limiting availability all reduce cancer risk.

A coroner has raised serious concerns about the “unrestricted availability of alcohol” on delivery apps following the death of a 28-year-old man who repeatedly ordered large quantities of alcohol while intoxicated.

Time for the Government to act.

BuzzBallz. 99p shots. High-ABV canned cocktails marketed to Gen Z.

In our latest blog, Emma Thompson examines what the death of ‘premiumisation’ really means – and why the industry’s ‘responsible drinking’ narrative just got a lot harder to defend.