Institute of Alcohol Studies

What would happen if off-trade alcohol, gambling, tobacco, and confectionery spending fell by 10%?

🎙️Listen to our latest podcast with @SARG_SCHARR’s Dr Damon Morris to find out how spending would reallocate and significantly boost the UK economy🎙️

Links https://www.ias.org.uk/podcast/reduced-consumption-of-supermarket-alcohol-tobacco-gambling-and-confectionery-would-be-unequivocally-good-for-the-uk-economy/

Gambling harm doesn’t happen in isolation.

In our latest blog, Dr Loren Kock explores how risky drinking and smoking rise alongside gambling risk – with the highest harms clustering together.

Time for a joined-up approach to tackling these behaviours.

“The amateur attempts to discredit and deflect from the indirect modelling and evaluation evidence are risible. The DUP either are not aware of [MUP] research, don’t understand it, or are refusing to engage with it.” – Professor Deirdre Heenan

@duponline

Rapid online delivery of alcohol is a very worrying & growing concern.

The opaque nature of online deliveries & little regulation to prevent dependent drinkers from ordering huge amounts of alcohol while intoxicated has only worsened since the pandemic.