The Alcohol Alert Podcast

Hello and welcome to the Alcohol Alert, brought to you by The Institute of Alcohol Studies. In this edition: * ‘No Escape: How Alcohol Advertising Preys on Children and Vulnerable People’ * ‘Sobriety ankle tags’ rolled out after successful pilot * Cross party group of MPs demands better approach to reduce alcohol harm * Disagreement over alcohol duty reform * Scottish LibDems and 28 NGOs call for...

Hello and welcome to the Alcohol Alert, brought to you by The Institute of Alcohol Studies. In this edition: * Upcoming events * This month’s IAS blogs * Big change for alcohol duty but will public health win or lose?🎵 Podcast feature 🎵 * Alcohol industry funded websites spread misinformation on cardiovascular risk * How has minimum unit pricing in Scotland affected alcohol-related crime? * The...

Hello and welcome to the Alcohol Alert, brought to you by The Institute of Alcohol Studies. In this edition: * Study finds alcohol ads appeared every 12 seconds in England vs. Scotland 2020 Six Nations match and responsible drinking messages were barely visible 🎵 Podcast feature 🎵 * The Scottish Government launches its 2021-2022 Programme for Government * Serious injuries from drink-driving road...

Hello and welcome to the  A lcohol  A lert, brought to you by The Institute of Alcohol Studies. In this edition: * Upcoming events * This month’s IAS blogs * Scotland sees the highest number of alcohol deaths since 2008 🎵 Podcast feature 🎵 * England and Wales saw a record number of 11,000 deaths from alcohol and drugs in 2020, with many suggesting that policies and treatment services aren’t doin...

Hello and welcome to the  A lcohol  A lert, brought to you by The Institute of Alcohol Studies. In this edition: * Public Health England releases a report that shows the shocking death statistics from alcohol in 2020, particularly due to alcoholic liver disease * A Lancet study shows the huge number of cancer cases caused by alcohol across the world 🎵 Podcast feature 🎵 * An aspirational alcohol...

Hello and welcome to the  A lcohol  A lert, brought to you by The Institute of Alcohol Studies. In this edition: * IAS seminar on Alcohol and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals * Extensive OECD publication details the investment case for alcohol control policies 🎵 Podcast feature 🎵 * New minimum unit pricing studies in Scotland bolster the argument for its implementation 🎵 Podcas...

Hello and welcome to the  A lcohol  A lert, brought to you by The Institute of Alcohol Studies.  In the May 2021 edition: * The Office for National Statistics released a report that shows there was a 20% increase in alcohol-specific deaths from 2019 to 2020 🎵 Podcast feature 🎵 * A research study has shown that alcohol adverts are appealing to adolescents and that this is likely to increase their...

Hello and welcome to the A lcohol A lert, brought to you by The Institute of Alcohol Studies. In this edition: * Chancellor announces a blanket freeze on alcohol duties for a second consecutive year in the spring Budget 🎵 Podcast feature 🎵 * Irish data highlights ways in which the pandemic has slowed progress in tackling alcohol misuse * Research finds association between alcohol-related violenc...

Hello and welcome to the A lcohol A lert, brought to you by The Institute of Alcohol Studies. In this edition: * Pubs pray for Easter resurrection – government roadmap out of lockdown urges hospitality to wait a little longer for salvation * Several studies uncover more evidence of the impact of home drinking during the COVID-19 pandemic * The European Union promises to beat cancer by tackling alc...

Hello and welcome to the A lcohol A lert, brought to you by The Institute of Alcohol Studies. In this edition: * The Westminster administration relies on its experiences of managing last year’s lockdowns to enforce a ban on takeaway alcohol in England * Researchers find that an app designed to help people drink less received a celebrity boost 🎵 Podcast feature 🎵 * Pandemic makes this year’s Dry...

Hello and welcome to the A lcohol A lert, brought to you by The Institute of Alcohol Studies. In this edition: * Home drinking increasingly becomes the new normal during lockdown * Economics think tank study says a reformed duty system would improve MUP’s effectiveness * Alcohol Health Alliance UK pricing survey finds that alcohol is still being sold at pocket money prices * Scottish Health Action...

Hello and welcome to the  A lcohol  A lert, brought to you by The Institute of Alcohol Studies. In this edition: * COVID-19: Latest lockdown measures leave pubs in tiers * IAS second briefing on COVID-19 alcohol consumption warns of the hidden harm from the rise in increasing and higher risk drinking  🎵 Podcast feature 🎵 * ScotRail considers a blanket ban on alcohol on Scottish trains * Governme...

Hello and welcome to the A lcohol A lert, brought to you by The Institute of Alcohol Studies. In this edition: * A round-up of how alcohol drinkers, producers and retailers have fared as the prospect of a second coronavirus wave looms * Think tank finds NoLo drinks have limited impact 🎵 Podcast feature 🎵 * SHAAP and IAS launch the Men and Alcohol report * Numbers of alcohol-related admissions to...

Hello and welcome to the A lcohol A lert, brought to you by The Institute of Alcohol Studies. In this edition: * The UK Government weighs up the trade-off between keeping pubs open or reopening schools in light of potential new lockdown * New drink-driving data from the Department for Transport show no ‘significant improvement’ for another year, as road accidents and casualties stay largely unchan...

Hello and welcome to the A lcohol A lert, brought to you by The Institute of Alcohol Studies. In this edition: * Super Saturday night’s alright for drinking – UK Government declares pubs open for business again while research uncovers worrying levels of home drinking since March * Local spending cuts a potential driver of alcohol-related hospital admissions * On-screen alcohol leaves lasting impre...

This is the first of A lcohol A lert newsletter articles on a new platform, Substack. If you like it, please do click on the button below to subscribe. Thank you. Britain’s relationship with alcohol in lockdown On the 23rd of March, the nation went into lockdown in response to an extraordinary event, a global pandemic of the COVID-19 virus. The emergence of the deadly disease forced people to adap...

Alcohol Alert, February 2020: Ahead of the 2020 Budget, an analysis of alcohol duties from the Institute of Alcohol Studies has found that far from the protestations of critics, the poorest households in the UK would stand to benefit most from any increases, especially if subsequent revenue is invested in expanding and strengthening the provision of health services. Research Fellow at the Universi...

Alcohol Alert, January 2020: This New Year episode of the Alcohol Alert follows the latest iteration of the Dry January phenomenon, which has spread to France, but not without controversy between the government and the health associations promoting it. Sonia Bigot speaks to Samy Amri of Société Française d'Alcoologie (the French Society of Alcohology) about the successes and challenges of the firs...

Alcohol Alert, November 2019: This month's edition focuses on research published in the Alcohol & Alcoholism journal suggesting that children can experience negative outcomes as a result of their parents’ alcohol use, regardless of how much those parents drink. We spoke with lead author, IAS Research & Policy Officer Lucy Bryant, about the findings. By subscribing to our enewsletter, you can recei...

Alcohol Alert, October 2019: This edition of the Alcohol Alert features a series of lectures given at the IAS Alcohol Marketing Conference: 'Protecting the vulnerable' on 16 October 2019. This session was a policy workshop aimed at finding solutions to the issues raised during the conference. Featuring the following panel: • Dan Parker (Living Loud) • Gemma Crompton (Alcohol Focus Scotland) • Rich...

Alcohol Alert, October 2019: This edition of the Alcohol Alert features a series of lectures given at the IAS Alcohol Marketing Conference: 'Protecting the vulnerable' on 16 October 2019. Sheila Gilheany (Alcohol Action Ireland), Patti Rundall (Baby Milk Action) and Gerard Hastings (University of Stirling) present lectures under the session ’International examples of good practice – alcohol market...

Alcohol Alert, October 2019: This edition of the Alcohol Alert features a series of lectures given at the IAS Alcohol Marketing Conference: 'Protecting the vulnerable' on 16 October 2019. Vivienne MacLaren (Scottish Women’s Football), Amanda Atkinson (Public Health Institute, Liverpool John Moores University) and Michaela Jones (Scottish Recovery Consortium) present lectures under the session ’Alc...

Alcohol Alert, October 2019: This edition of the Alcohol Alert features a series of lectures given at the IAS Alcohol Marketing Conference: 'Protecting the vulnerable' on 16 October 2019. Nathan Critchlow (University of Stirling, Institute of Marketing) presents the lecture: 'Regulating alcohol marketing in the digital "Wild West"'. Introduced by Katherine Severi. *This lecture features a video wh...

Alcohol Alert, October 2019: This edition of the Alcohol Alert features a series of lectures given at the IAS Alcohol Marketing Conference: 'Protecting the vulnerable' on 16 October 2019. David Jernigan (Boston University School of Public Health) presents the lecture: 'Alcohol marketing and public health – What do we know and what we can we do?'. Introduced by Katherine Severi. *This lecture featu...

Alcohol Alert, September 2019: This episode focuses on the release of a report looking into the advice given by midwives to pregnant women about alcohol consumption. The survey behind the report ‘Alcohol guidelines for pregnant women: Barriers and enablers for midwives to deliver advice’ – highlights the inconsistency in official guidance that led to four out of ten midwives stating that they were...