Alcohol Alert

Issue 2 Summer 2009

On the cover of this issue
“Supermarkets exhibiting the morality of a crack dealer” Select Committee told

Also in this issue:
Leading Health Charities call for ban on advertising alcohol price promotions

Institute of Alcohol Studies comment

Southampton study highlights risks of daily drinking

A quarter of adults in England are hazardous drinkers

Drink a day increases cancer risk

8 to 14 weekly units of alcohol boosts overall tally of days spent in hospital

Scots alcohol related deaths double what previously thought - one alcohol death every three hours

Scotland out of step with European levels of alcohol related harm

UK doctors back calls for minimum price of alcohol

Chris Huhne acts on minimum pricing

Drunks - to treat or to punish?

NOFAS UK

The Phoney War on Drugs - Kathy Gyngell

Alcohol in Britain: young men are bingedrinking less, but women are binge-drinking more

Book Reviews:
‘Nightlife and crime: Social order and governance in international perspective’ by Phil Hadfield Reviewed by Geoff Munro

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