Awareness Week on Alcohol Related Harm (AWARH)
November 16th- 20th is Awareness Week on Alcohol Related Harm. AWARH was initiated in 2013; it is an initiative of the European Alcohol Policy Alliance (EUROCARE), the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), the European Brain Council (EBC), the European Liver Patients Association (ELPA), the European Federation of Associations of Families of […]
Alcohol Research UK: Call for Proposals for 2016 Postgraduate and Early Career Symposium
Alcohol Research UK will be holding their second Postgraduate and Early Career Research symposium on March 15th 2016 at the The Rep, Birmingham. There is currently a call for abstracts for oral or poster presentations from postgraduate, PhD or post-doctoral researchers. Proposals exploring alcohol issues from all disciplinary backgrounds and from a variety of theoretical/methodological […]
Alcohol Occasional Seminars: Alcohol, Europe and the World
SHAAP/SARN Alcohol Occasional Seminars, 2015–16: Alcohol, Europe and the World Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) and the Scottish Alcohol Research Network (SARN) are pleased to announce our programme for the lunchtime ‘Alcohol Occasional’ seminars, 2015-16. These showcase innovative research on alcohol use and provide the chance for researchers, practitioners and policy makers and […]
Call for Alcohol Occasional Proposals
Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) and the Scottish Alcohol Research Network (SARN) are pleased to announce a Call for Proposals to present at our lunchtime ‘Alcohol Occasional’ seminars. These showcase innovative research on alcohol use and provide the chance for researchers, practitioners and policy makers and members of the public to hear and […]
SARN Think Tank: ‘Informing the future alcohol-related research priorities and agenda in Scotland’
The Scottish Alcohol Research Network (SARN) hosted a Think Tank event on Friday 6th March at the Centre for Carbon Innovation in Edinburgh. The event was to help promote alcohol-related research and development activities across and between sectors with the aim of working collaboratively. The event was attended by researchers, policy makers, NGOs, service users […]
EU Failure to Provide Alcohol Strategy leads to mass resignation.
Neglecting the advice of experts in the field and the prioritising of alcohol industry interest has resulted in over 20 NGOs resigning from the EU Alcohol and Health Forum. The resignations including, Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) have come amidst claims that the failure to provide a coherent alcohol strategy neglects the public health concerns voiced […]
Alcohol in 2015 Manifestos
Last year an All Party Parliamentary Group on Alcohol Misuse (APPG) was released urging political partied to adopt 10 key alcohol policies ahead of the 2015 election. The recommendations were as follows: 1. Make reducing alcohol harms the responsibility of a single government minister with clear accountability 2. Introduce a minimum unit price for alcoholic […]
New Member’s Bill: Alcohol (Licensing, Public Health and Criminal Justice) (Scotland) Bill
On the 1st April 2015, Richard Simpson MSP introduced a new Member’s Bill aimed at reducing and dealing with alcohol abuse. The core objectives of the Bill are to improve public health by discouraging irresponsible alcohol consumption, and to tackle the consequences in terms of antisocial and criminal behaviour. The Bill sets out ten measures which look to: […]
Exciting new research: Understanding and responding to those bereaved through their family members’ substance misuse.
Understanding and responding to those bereaved through their family members’ substance misuse. Below is an overview of an ongoing research project, funded by the ESRC and undertaken collaboratively between the University of Bath and University of Stirling. What? Principal Investigator, Professor Tony Walter and his research team have been talking to adults who have been […]
Licensing of Air Weapons in Scotland a Step Closer
The licensing of air weapons has today (23 March) come a step closer following the publication of the Scottish Parliament’s Local Government and Regeneration Committee’s stage one report on the Air Weapons and Licensing (Scotland) Bill. Whilst supporting plans to license air weapons, the Committee is calling on the Scottish Government to strengthen the scheme […]
The KBS Society journal has published a new issue of IJADR
The papers in this issue are listed below and can be downloaded from http://ijadr.org/index.php/ijadr/issue/view/16. This issue includes authors from Australia, Columbia, Ghana, Germany, Sweden and the United States. Vol 3, No 2 (2014) Alcohol’s harm to others: Quantifying a little or a lot of harm Sarah Callinan Determinants of drink-driving and association between […]
Abstract submission deadline extended 11th INEBRIA Conference Warsawa 18th & 19th September 2014
Abstract submission has been extended until 15th of May for the 11th INEBRIA Conference Warsaw 18th & 19th September 2014 http://www.inebria.pl/index.php/abstract-submission.