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Monday, October 11, 2010
UK Alcohol Alert incorporating Alliance News Issue 2, 2010
Contents
1 Which direction for alcohol policy under the Coalition?
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4 Overhaul of Licensing Act to give communities more power to tackle crime
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5 Will the Coalition Government lower the drink drive limit?
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7 Majority of Britons support better alcohol labelling and higher age limit
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8 People dependent on drugs or alcohol who refuse treatment could lose their welfare benefits
9 Alcohol No Ordinary Commodity - New edition
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10 Government ‘health watchdog’ calls for minimum price of alcohol
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12 Alcohol and obesity mix to create deadly liver disease cocktail
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14 Free NHS treatment to be pared back by 2020, says new
report
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15 Scottish doctors say ‘minimum pricing for alcohol only credible option available’
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15 More than 100 children a week contact Childline with worries about their parents’ drinking or drug use
17 The alcoholic beverage industry’s use of new media a ‘cause for concern’
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18 Rowntree reviews ethnicity and alcohol
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19 St Mary’s Alcohol Health Work Project named HubCAPP Project of the Year
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20 Book Review: Tackling Addiction - Pathways to Recovery - Edited by Rowdy Yates and Margaret S Malloch
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