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14 March 2018: Assembly Members in Wales backed minimum unit pricing in a vote yesterday. Following a debate on the general principles of a bill to introduce minimum unit pricing, 46 Assembly Members backed the […]
12 March 2018: Last year the European Commission provided the alcohol industry with the opportunity to come up with self-regulatory proposals on alcohol labelling. Health organisations today said that the industry has failed to come […]
7 March 2018: Responding to the publication of Our Invisible Addicts, a new report from the Royal College of Psychiatrists which highlights the fact that problems with alcohol are increasing among older people, Professor Sir […]
28 February 2018: New figures from the Institute of Alcohol Studies (IAS) show that supermarket beer is almost 188% more affordable today than it was thirty years ago, and that its affordability has risen by […]
21 February 2018: Concerns have again been raised relating to the damage that cheap alcohol is causing in the North East of England and the increasing pressure it puts on our policing services. The three […]
25 January 2018: There is no evidence to support the practice of parents providing alcohol to their teenagers to protect them from alcohol-related risks during early adolescence, according to a study published in The Lancet […]
26 January 2018: As Dry January draws to a close, the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) is today (26 January 2018) proposing a new approach to the way alcoholic drinks are labelled in the […]
24 January 2018: Just under half of young people in the UK had tried alcohol by the time they were 14, with more than one in ten confessing to binge drinking, new findings from the […]
21 January 2018: Leading representatives from the health, homelessness, children’s and religious sectors, along with 45 Parliamentarians, have today called for the Westminster government to introduce minimum unit pricing in England without delay. The call […]
8 January 2018: Government and the alcohol industry are failing to provide drinkers with the information they need to make the right choices about alcohol – both for themselves and for their children. New figures […]
