News archive: Alcohol

France, E., Hoyle, L., Campbell, P. et al. Understanding the health and well-being impacts and implementation barriers and facilitators of legally-mandated non-custodial drug and alcohol treatment for justice-involved adults: a qualitative evidence synthesis. Health Justice 13, 58 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40352-025-00361-5  

Hepatology, T. L. G. (2025). Alcohol and health: time for Europe to sober up. The lancet. Gastroenterology & hepatology, 10(7), 605.

Cook, M., Nicholls, J., Mitchell, G., O’Donnell, R., & Fitzgerald, N. (2025). Identifying innovative approaches to the temporal availability of alcohol in Great Britain—a policy analysis. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 1-11.

The Scottish Alcohol Research Network (SARN) Early and Mid-Career Alcohol Researcher event is taking place on Tuesday 11th March 2025 at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. The event will take place in-person from 10:30-14:30 GMT and will provide PhD students, early career researchers, and mid-career researchers with an opportunity to present their work and discuss future projects, whilst networking with colleagues from their field. Please see...

Still, H. (2024). Alcohol and Other Drug Harm in Rural Scotland: Addiction Looks Different Here. In Rural Social Work in the UK: Themes and Challenges for the Future (pp. 61-90). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Lyons, A. C., Kersey, K., Emslie, C., Dimova, E., & Burrows, A. (2024). Digital alcohol marketing and gender: A narrative synthesis. Drug and Alcohol Review.

The second seminar of the 2024 Alcohol Occasionals was delivered by Professor Niamh Fitzgerald and Professor John Holmes on Wednesday 24 March.   No- and low-alcohol (no/lo) drinks have become increasingly popular with consumers in recent years and the UK Government is committed to growing the no/lo market. No/lo drinks may have substantial health benefits if used in place of standard alcoholic...

Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) and the Scottish Alcohol Research Network (SARN) invite you to join us online on Wednesday 22 March from 12.45-14.00 BST (UK time) for our third SHAAP/SARN Alcohol Occasionals event of 2024.   Increased calls have been made to attend to the language around alcohol use made on several grounds. In particular, language has been addressed as a key...

Our fourth seminar of the 2024 Alcohol Occasionals was delivered by Dr Danielle Mitchell on  Wednesday 19 June.   Alcohol places a significant burden on UK ambulance services, with at least one-in-six ambulance call-outs in Scotland being alcohol-related. Ambulance staff in England have reported feeling inadequately prepared for alcohol-related call-outs in surveys, however no previous research has explored their views...

Dixon, H., Scully, M., Niederdeppe, J., Brennan, E., O’Brien, K., Vandenberg, B., Pettigrew, S., & Wakefield, M. (2023). Can counter-advertising dilute marketing effects of alcohol sponsorship of elite sport: A field experiment. Addiction

What Works Centre for Children & Families. (2023, August 2). Family drug and alcohol courts – foundations.

Gaume, J., Blanc, S., Magill, M., McCambridge, J., Bertholet, N., Hugli, O., & Daeppen, J. (2023). Who benefits from brief motivational intervention among young adults presenting to the emergency department with alcohol intoxication: A latent‐class moderation analysis. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research