The WHO European Region has the heaviest alcohol consumption of all regions in the world. Alcohol use causes a significant reduction in life expectancy in Europe, especially among men. Here, every hou...

Alcohol labelling laws have repeatedly been delayed, with American tariffs cited most recently, write Sara Burke and Norah Campbell

Alcohol policy interventions, including those that increase alcohol taxes, raise the drinking and purchase age, reduce days or hours of sale, and impose strong marketing bans, reduce alcohol consum...

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This project explores young people's consumption of no/low alcohol drinks in Great Britain, focusing on family settings. Using surveys and interviews, it will investigate adult perceptions, consumptio...

This review was commissioned by the Department for Communities under section 23 of the Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) (2021). The report has been produced by th...

THAMES Water’s dirty reputation is having an unfortunate knock-on effect on attempts to clean up its act.

New research published today in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health has revealed that only 65 per cent of alcohol products sold in Australia display the mandatory warning about the...

Associations between alcohol consumption and cancer are scientifically well established, but the public are often unaware of the links. Sharmila Devi reports.

With crucial results looming, investors fear 25 years of dividend growth may stall this week as drinks firm battles major headwinds

Men are more than twice as likely as women to die as a result of excess alcohol consumption, statistics show

The covid-19 pandemic was associated with an unprecedented increase in alcohol consumption and associated morbidity, including hospitalizations for alcohol withdrawal. Clinicians based in hospitals mu...

Do cancer warnings on alcohol work better if they feature graphic imagery or narrative imagery? A new eye-tracking study looked into this.

Alcohol deaths in England continue to rise, with the North East death rate overtaking Scotland's for the first time ever. Colin Angus looks at why this might be and which age groups are particularly a...

Scottish Health Action On Alcohol Problems (Shaap) has called for alcohol funding to be restored.

The strategy may cover areas such as mental health, suicide prevention, heart disease and stroke.

The latest alcohol overview from the Health Research Board (HRB) reveals that despite a decline in pubs, Ireland still ranks 3rd highest in the world for

Introduction Investigations of drinking practices often rely on cross-country comparisons of population averages in beverage preferences, drinking volumes and frequencies. Here, we investigate withi.....

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The Scottish Whisky Association argued in your pages (Letters 31st October) that “The UK Budget was full of betrayal for Scotland’s whisky industry”. Alcohol policy choices, such as those made by the ...

Scotland saved lives by raising prices on cheap supermarket alcohol, but the policy isn’t a silver-bullet solution.

Scotland saved lives by raising prices on cheap supermarket alcohol, but the policy isn’t a silver-bullet solution.

Scotland saved lives by raising prices on cheap supermarket alcohol, but the policy isn’t a silver-bullet solution.