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Don’t Drink and Drown
Royal Life Saving Society Chief Exec Di Steer draws attention to a tragic issue
Nanny states and grown-up debates on alcohol policy
Reducing arguments to simplistic – even incoherent – claims and accusations is not good for reasoned, public deliberation, says Professor John Coggon
Tell me more, tell me more – what’s this industry-led public health initiative about?
How useful are the messages given by Public Health England’s partnership initiative with industry sponsored Drinkaware? Researcher Colin Angus finds out
Communication of the CMO drinking guidelines in antenatal care – as simple as it sounds?
More work is needed to explore midwives' efforts work in implementing the guidelines
Things can only get better?
Paul Hayes, outgoing chief executive of Collective Voice, offers his reflections on how alcohol policy has developed over the course of his career
Frequent drinkers unravelled
They may think themselves responsible, but older people may not recognise that their drinking could be a risk to their health, argues Bethany Kate Bareham
How common is alcohol and drug dependency across the world?
Hannah Ritchie presents a global picture of the state of substance dependency in five colourful charts
Communicating research on anxiety and alcohol use at Research Without Borders
Maddy Dyer invites you to contemplate the relationship between both factors – at her mock pub
Alcohol and mental health: time for concerted action
The links are well known, but we need leadership to change things for the better, says Andy Bell
Addicted lawyers: can the insurance industry help?
Insurers may be well placed to step in where support groups struggle, writes Jonathan Goodliffe
Let’s help pregnant women not drink
Women receive too many conflicting messages. Let's just stick to the facts, urges Catherine Gray
New lower risk drinking guidelines – did they effect ‘COM-B’ determinants of behaviour change?
It is unlikely that the aim of informing healthy drinking choices was met, writes Abigail Stevely
InterMAHP – a new way of calculating alcohol-attributable fractions
The International Model of Alcohol Harms and Policies is a new research tool for estimating alcohol harms
Super-strength lager is a beer for sipping, possibly from a wine glass – and other delusions
Jeremy Swain hopes for change to the a tax regime in the 2017 Autumn Budget that will deal with the devastation wreaked by high strength...
Carthage must be destroyed
'The struggle to stop the UK drowning in cheap alcohol can be won, but it requires exceptional powers of endurance,' writes professor Rob Poole
Why are girls in deprived areas six times more likely than girls in affluent areas to be injured in violence?
Professor Jonathan Shepherd describes discoveries from the Violence Society Group’s investigations into the issue and reveals how alcohol plays a role
There is no proven safe amount of alcohol in pregnancy. No Alcohol, No Risk
Sandra Butcher reminds us to take a more sober view of findings of the recent research into the effects of alcohol on pregnancy
By tackling cheap off-trade alcohol, we can support pubs AND reduce harmful consumption
New report shows that there is a common ground between the pub trade and public health advocates
Club Soda hosts the first-ever Mindful Drinking Festival
Inaugural event held as part of a movement to get people to be comfortable with not drinking alcohol
Alcohol liver disease – crisis on the horizon
We need to tackle the rising levels of mortality cause by alcoholic liver disease – and fast, warns Professor Roger Williams
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