News archive: Alcohol Policy

Gretta Mohan, An evaluation of the impact of a national Minimum Unit Price on alcohol policy on alcohol behaviours, Journal of Public Health, 2024;, fdae288, https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdae288

Haragirimana, E., Mitchell, G., & Uny, I. (2024). Evaluating the progress of alcohol policies in Burundi against the WHO ‘best buy’ interventions: implications for public health. International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research, 12(S1), S57-S70.

Briefing paper from the Social Market foundation, by Dr Aveek Bhattacharya.

Angus, C. (2023). Analysis of changes in alcohol prices, taxation and affordability in the Republic of Ireland

Vaitkevičiūtė, J., Gobiņa, I., Janik-Koncewicz, K., Lange, S., Miščikienė, L., Petkevičienė, J., Radišauskas, R., Reile, R., Štelemėkas, M., Stoppel, R., Telksnys, T., Tran, A., Rehm, J., Zatoński, W. A., & Jiang, H. (2023, April 18). Alcohol control policies reduce all-cause mortality in Baltic Countries and Poland between 2001 and 2020. Scientific Reports

Casswell, S., Huckle, T., Parker, K., Graydon‐Guy, T., Leung, J., Parry, C., Torun, P., Sengee, G., Pham, C., Gray‐Phillip, G., Callinan, S., Chaiyasong, S., MacKintosh, A. M., Meier, P., & Randerson, S. (2023, April). Effective alcohol policies are associated with reduced consumption among demographic groups who drink heavily. Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research

Christie, B. (2023, April 20). Scotland needs raft of measures to reduce alcohol harms, say medical groups. BMJ

Kowalski, M., Livingston, M., Wilkinson, C., & Ritter, A. (2023, April 17). An overlooked effect: domestic violence and alcohol policies in the night‐time economy. Addiction

Hawkins, B., & van Schalkwyk, M. C. (2023, March 24). Politics and fantasy in UK alcohol policy: a critical logics approach. Critical Policy Studies

Commentary. Published 6 June 2023 by Society for Study of Addiction (Addiction).

The full recording of the special Scottish Alcohol Research Network (SARN) and Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) seminar to recognise Dr Eric Carlin’s many contributions as SHAAP Director is now available. Held on Monday 15 November via Zoom.

On 20–21 November 2018, Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) hosted the 8th European Alcohol Policy Conference (EAPC). The conference was attended by a variety of stakeholders in the field of alcohol policy from around Europe, including researchers, government officials, civil servants WHO representatives, recovery community groups, and people with lived experience. The conference not only addressed the key...