News archive: Minimum Unit Pricing

Clay, J. M., Farkouh, E. K., Stockwell, T., Thomas, G., Johnston, K., & Naimi, T. S. (2025). The impact of alcohol minimum pricing policies on vulnerable populations and health equity: A rapid review. International Journal of Drug Policy, 145, 105014.

Billan, S., Angus, C., & Collins, B. (2025). Evaluating the impact of minimum unit alcohol pricing on purchasing behaviour by different social class and age groups in Wales: A controlled interrupted time series study. Public health, 240, 71-79.

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

Boyd, J., Holmes, J., Gibbs, N., Buckley, C., Purshouse, R., & Meier, P. (2024). How can agent‐based modelling provide new insights into the impact of minimum unit pricing in Scotland?. Drug and alcohol review.

Taylor, N., & Livingston, M. (2024). The market matters: Shifting the minimum unit price. Drug and Alcohol Review.

Wyper, G. M., Giles, L., Beeston, C., & Shivaji, T. (2024). Recent estimates of alcohol specific deaths support alcohol minimum unit pricing. bmj, 384.

Maharaj, T., Fitzgerald, N., Gilligan, E., Quirke, M., MacHale, S., & Ryan, J. D. (2024). Alcohol-related emergency department presentations and hospital admissions around the time of minimum unit pricing in Ireland. Public Health, 227, 38-41.  

Patterson, C., Giles, L., Whitehead, R., Greci, S., Ferguson, K., Fraser, C., … & Beeston, C. (2023). Evaluating the impact of minimum unit pricing for alcohol in Scotland: a theory-based synthesis of the evidence. The Lancet, 402, S14.

Bashir, M. T., Bhatt, P., Thiruvothiyur, M., Khan, I., Cooper, J. G., & Poobalan, A. S. (2023, March 14). The impact of minimum unit pricing on traumatic brain injury in Scotland: a retrospective cohort study of routine national data. British Journal of Neurosurgery

Miller, P., Coomber, K., Lowen, T., Taylor, N., Livingston, M., Scott, D., Buykx, P., Mayshak, R., Curtis, A., Baldwin, R., Smith, J. A., Clifford, S., & Chikritzhs, T. (2023, March 30). The impact of Minimum Unit Price on police-recorded alcohol-related assault rates in the Northern Territory, Australia. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

Scotland, P. H. (2023, March 21). Evaluating the impact of alcohol minimum unit pricing (MUP) on alcohol-attributable deaths and hospital admissions in Scotland – Publications – Public Health Scotland

Wyper, G. M. A., Mackay, D. F., Fraser, C., Lewsey, J., Robinson, M., Beeston, C., & Giles, L. (2023, April). Evaluating the impact of alcohol minimum unit pricing on deaths and hospitalisations in Scotland: a controlled interrupted time series study. The Lancet