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Framing the alcohol policy debate
May 17, 2013
A new open access article by Benjamin Hawkins and Chris Holden is available online. ‘Framing the alcohol debate: industry actors and the regulation of the UK beverage alcohol market’ (Critical Policy Studies) is based on an Alcohol Research UK-funded project which analysed the role of alcohol industry in the formulation of British alcohol policy. The [...]
Conference 2013 ‘Alcohol and British Society’
May 15, 2013
Full videos of all the presentations from our 2013 conference ‘Alcohol and British Society’ are now available via the Film Exchange on Alcohol and Drugs website. For links to all videos, as well as downloads of presentation slides, go to our Conference 2013 page.
Identification and brief advice in emergency departments
May 15, 2013
Findings from an Alcohol Research UK-funded study of IBA activity in emergency departments have been published in Emergency Medicine Journal. The study, by Robert Patton and and Pat O’Hara (Kings College, London), found that there had been ‘significant improvement in ED alcohol identification and brief advice since 2007.
New studies in the Alcohol Library
The 2nd National Emergency Department survey of Alcohol Identification and Intervention activity
November 2, 2012
Are UK alcohol policy and NICE guidelines, commending the use of screening tools and delivery of brief advice in hospital emergency departments being adopted?
Process evaluation and feasibility study of In:tuition, a life skills education programme for young people aged 9-14 years
September 27, 2012
In:tuition is an evidence based, life skills education programme for young people aged 9-14 developed by Drinkaware.
Alcohol Research UK Special Reports
The Government’s Alcohol Strategy
This paper comments on the evidence-base underpinning some of the key policy proposals within the Strategy and outlines research we’ve funded which is relevant to these proposals.
Alcohol Research in History
From temperance to today, this is a whistle stop tour of the period since the first half of the nineteenth century looking at where modern alcohol research came from.
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