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2026 IAS Small Grants Scheme recipients announced

Budget 2026: alcohol duty to increase in line with inflation

Alcohol-specific deaths in Scotland decrease by 3%; remain above pre-pandemic levels

New tracker finds low ambition and limited progress on alcohol policy

Wales’ minimum unit price uprated to 65p

Pubs call time on cheap supermarket booze and drink-driving

Westminster’s drinking culture is putting staff wellbeing at risk, first-of-its-kind study finds

New guidance helps clinicians navigate chlordiazepoxide shortage in alcohol detox

New film shows how alcohol marketers target vulnerable people and children

Alcohol labels fail to inform consumers

UK alcohol deaths fall in 2024 but remain well above pre-pandemic levels

Lancet Commission calls for urgent action on alcohol harm

IAS’s Small Grants Scheme now open for applications!

DUP blocks minimum unit pricing in Northern Ireland

New film exposes alcohol industry practices in the Global South

National Cancer Plan for England acknowledges alcohol as cancer risk factor