Institute of Alcohol Studies

Drink-driving remains a major cause of preventable death and injury. Police chiefs, road safety charities and the RAC are calling for mandatory alcolocks for repeat offenders, citing evidence they can reduce reoffending by up to 70%.

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If a policy prioritises tax income over lowering the consumption of harmful products, what might the unintended consequences be?

🎧 We hear from Peter Roderick, York Director of Public Health & ADPH spokesperson on CDoH, on the Alcohol Alert podcast: https://www.ias.org.uk/podcast/power-polluters-and-public-health-inside-the-world-of-a-director-of-public-health/

Our latest report w/ Balance found publicans say they are rarely, if ever, asked what they think. And the trade bodies who claim to speak for them prioritise the interests of their major funders: multinational alcohol producers that make billions from cheap supermarket sales…

“If the government want to protect pubs and hospitality while at the same time improving public health, a really clear way to do that would be to introduce measures that increase the price of alcohol in the off-trade.”

👂IAS’s Jem Roberts on 5Live.

https://www.ias.org.uk/report/behind-the-bar-what-publicans-really-think-about-alcohol-policy/