alcohol

Estimating the Cost-Effectiveness of Brief Interventions for Heavy Drinking in Primary Health Care across Europe

Scientific article

24 August 2016

Background Screening and brief interventions for alcohol are an effective public health measure to tackle alcohol-related harm, however relatively few countries across the European Union (EU) have implemented them widely. This may be due to...

"Does Red Bull Give Vodka Wings?"

Scientific article

17 May 2017

New research that will be published in the new edition of the Journal of Consumer Psychology sets out to answer the question: ‘Does Red Bull Give Wings to Vodka?’ "Red Bull has long used the slogan 'Red Bull gives you wings,' but our study...

Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: Treatment not for the Patient but for the Community

Book

17 May 2017

The final row of the Alcohol Treatment Matrix enters the domain of treatment organised not primarily for the patient, but to safeguard the wider community, encountering what seems a core contradiction depicted on the cover of WHO guidance...

Excessive Drinking: More a Result of Low Socioeconomic Status Than Access to Alcohol?

Scientific article

16 May 2017

Among US neighbourhoods, poverty and disorganisation, that is high levels of crime, drug trafficking and graffiti etc., may increase the risk of problem drinking, more so than the presence of bars or stores that sell alcohol. In other words...

Treatment of Skid-Row Alcoholics with Disulfiram

Scientific article

1 January 1966

Conducted in 1962 and 1963 in Atlanta in the USA, the featured article seems the first to have tested whether problem-drinking offenders will take a drug which enforces abstinence by generating deterrent reactions to alcohol, if the...

Adult Substance Misuse Statistics from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS)

Scientific article

12 May 2017

This report brings together information on people receiving specialist interventions for drug problems and for problem drinking in England, other than patients receiving this treatment in prison. Analysed textually and pictorially through...

Current and Binge Drinking Among High School Students — United States, 1991–2015

Scientific article

12 May 2017

Summary What is already known about this topic? Each year from 2006 to 2010, excessive alcohol consumption was responsible for approximately 4,300 deaths among persons aged <21 years, and, in 2010, underage drinking cost the United States...

Moving beyond Patient and Public Involvement in Alcohol Research

15 June 2017

London

United Kingdom

Alcohol Research UK and Fuse, the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, are delighted to announce a joint one day workshop on patient and public involvement in research where we will explore different ways to design and assess research that aims for co-production.

Britain and the Booze: New Stats Reveal a Fall in Alcohol Consumption Nationwide

News

British people love an alcoholic beverage or two (or three, or four), so the stereotype goes. New statistics from the Office for National Statistics, however, suggest a decrease in levels of alcohol consumption across the country. The...

New Publication: EMCDDA’s Prevention of Addictive Behaviours

Book

26 April 2017

An updated version of the publication Prevention of Substance Abuse by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is now available in English. Global in scope, it provides an up-to-date review of prevention science...