17th May 2023 | Assoc. Professor Helen Dixon A new study published in BMC Public Health found that counter-advertising exposing and critiquing alcohol sports sponsorship bolstered public support for restrictions on this harmful marketing. Despite the many health benefits of sport, elite sport is awash with booze sponsorship. Whether watching games live or on TV, spectators are … Read More →
29th April 2025 | By Dr Ashlea Bartram; Institute of Alcohol Studies, UK In recent years there has been an explosion in the availability – and advertising – of zero-alcohol drinks: drinks that mimic alcohol products in appearance and taste, but contain no or very low volumes of alcohol. In Australia, these drinks are increasingly … Read More →
7th July 2025 | By Emma Thompson Alcohol deaths are at record levels across the UK, but the alcohol industry would like us to believe things are “going in the right direction”. Trade groups argue that the alcohol industry offers “rewarding careers” while pushing back against new rights for workers and threatening job cuts over policy … Read More →
Blog at the website of the Institute of Alcohol Studies; by Dr Elena D. Dimova, 4th December 2024 Alcohol policies are important for reducing the negative effects of alcohol. The World Health Organisation recommends that countries take steps to control how alcohol is priced, advertised and sold. For example: Pricing: Governments can increase taxes on alcohol or … Read More →
Dr Alex Barker calls for The Psychologist to ‘move ahead of the curve’ on advertising. 22 July 2024 Like readers before me (The Psychologist, 2017), I was shocked to find a £75 voucher for wine with my recent issue. I, like many others, have a complicated history with alcohol and have struggled with my own alcohol … Read More →
Nason Maani, lecturer in inequalities and global health policy, Global Health Policy Unit, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh, May CI van Schalkwyk, honorary research fellow, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Alice Wiseman, director of public health, Gateshead, Gateshead Council, Gateshead, … Read More →
March 12, 2024 by Wim van Dalen, Dutch Institute for Alcohol Policy STAP The start and end of fruitless discussions about the alcohol problem In 2018, Paul Blokhuis (then State Secretary of Health, Welfare and Sport) announced the National Prevention Agreement with the aim of a healthier Netherlands in 2040 by reducing smoking, obesity and problematic … Read More →
27th February 2024 | By Dr Mary Madden, Professor Jim McCambridge, and Dr Andrew Bartlett Strategic collaborations and cross-ownership mean the tobacco and alcohol sectors have long been closely linked, and remain so today. There are striking similarities in their approaches to science and policy, including counterarguments to proposals to improve public health. The global … Read More →
Haroldnet ;Tuesday, January 2, 2024; By Aaron Weiner and Linda Richter / For the Chicago Tribune While legal for adults, advertising of those products is reaching teens and encouraging use among them. Sometimes, it seems that we’re doing all we can to sabotage our own efforts to reverse the nation’s mental health and addiction crises, which disproportionately … Read More →
AlcoholAction Ireland 2023: Guest blog: dr Catherine Conlon A new Citizen’s Assembly on illicit drugs use will be established by Cabinet and is expected to begin its work in April and conclude by the end of the year. While an evidence- based drug policy is laudable and overdue, what of Ireland’s largest drug problem – … Read More →
Alastair MacGilchrist SHAAP.Chair@rcpe.ac.ukView all authors and affiliations OnlineFirst; https://doi.org/10.1177/14782715231207907 Alcohol health harm remains at an unacceptably high level in many countries including in Scotland where, as elsewhere in Europe and North America, alcohol specific deaths rose during the COVID-19 pandemic as consumption increased in those already drinking heavily.1,2,3,4 The Scottish Government recently undertook a public consultation on … Read More →