Latest news and events
Minimum price for alcohol in Scotland
May 14, 2012
The Scottish government’s health secretary, Nicola Sturgeon has announced that the preferred minimum price for alcohol will be 50p per unit.
Our Small Grants Scheme reopened
April 26, 2012
We’ll be working over the summer to develop some new research priorities. In the meantime, In the meantime, our Small Grants Scheme is available once more.
Pub managers back plans for minimum price
April 26, 2012
A survey by charity Alcohol Concern Cymru has shown the Governments proposal for a minimum alcohol unit cost of is backed by 77 per cent of Welsh publicans.
From the blog
Can Brief Interventions change Scotland’s relationship with alcohol?
March 20, 2012 By webmaster
Organised by Edinburgh Cyrenians and held on Tuesday 27th March 2012, this one day conference is an opportunity to discuss and debate the roll out of alcohol brief interventions in wider settings.
Addiction: a spiritual illness with a spiritual solution?
March 8, 2012 By webmaster
As society becomes more aware of the damage caused by addiction, the search for potential solutions is becoming more widespread.
The Role of Addictions in Human Culture
February 1, 2012 By Professor Ray Hodgson
Fascinating, in depth, interview with great British thinker, researcher and clinician Professor Griffith Edwards CBE.
New studies in the Alcohol Library
Gender, alcohol and interventions
May 4, 2012
How do gender attributes and attitudes affect young men’s and women’s alcohol use? Are different health promotion interventions required for young men and women?
Identifying promising approaches and initiatives to reducing alcohol related harm
March 16, 2012
This study aimed to identify promising approaches that could be included in multi-component programmes (MCPs) to reduce alcohol related harm at local level.
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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