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Prenatal alcohol exposure and childhood balance
June 18, 2013
A new study in BMJOpen suggests that low levels of alcohol consumption in pregnancy have no adverse effects on the balance ability of school age children. The research was funded by an Alcohol Research UK Small Grant and produced by a team working on the ALSPAC cohort study. You can download a full copy of [...]
New research on schools, parents and adolescent alcohol use
June 13, 2013
A new Alcohol Research UK study suggests children whose parents exert greater control over their free time activities drink less frequently. The research team, based at Queen’s University Belfast, looked at survey data for children attending more than 40 schools over an eleven-year period. Click on ‘Alcohol Library’ above to read the full report.
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 [...]
New studies in the Alcohol Library
Investigating Parental Monitoring, School And Family Influences On Adolescent Alcohol Use
June 10, 2013
Children whose parents exert greater control over their free time activities tend to drink less frequently. Early control has a lasting influence on alcohol use
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?
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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