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⏰ SAVE THE DATE ⏰: We are thrilled to officially announce that #CAGR2025 will be held in Glasgow on 16 and 17 June 2025. Our first confirmed keynote speaker is the illustrious @CLjeSuppose from Monash University, Australia 🥳🥳

Come and work with us! Grade 7 Research Fellow position to work on a project investigating use of non-cigarette tobacco products in England. Details here: jobs.ac.uk/job/DJP164/res…

A review of 500 best-selling alcohol products by Portman Group finds one in seven still do not carry the CMOs' drinking guidelines, more than eight years since they were announced. Half carry no information on calorie content.

**New SARG paper*** Estimating the effect of transitioning to a strength-based alcohol tax system on alcohol consumption and health outcomes: a modelling study of tax reform in England sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We've got a cool new paper out today in The Lancet Public Health modelling the impact of the reforms to alcohol taxes that happened in the UK last summer. We find that broadly the reforms are a step in the right direction, but only a small step... doi.org/10.1016/S2468-…

The PhD Symposium is a free annual event for people in the field of #addiction who are doing a #PhD or have recently submitted their thesis. Apply now for your chance to attend. tinyurl.com/278nc8nb

🔽🔽🔽 I'll be speaking at the event below on our evaluation of the UK drinking guidelines

It is with great sadness to share that our beloved colleague Dr Antonia Keung passed away School for Business and Society 🏫 University of York Antonia will be remembered for her smile, kindness and unwavering commitment in tackling child poverty. An untimely and unfair loss. york.ac.uk/business-socie…

New paper documents changes in the amount adult risky drinkers spend on alcohol. ⬇️ around the start of the pandemic ⬆️ since restrictions were lifted and cost-of-living crisis led to high rates of inflation Pattern appears largely driven by changes in price paid per unit

Alcohol consumption among 11-15 year-olds continues to decline in England. New data from England's main survey of school-children's smoking, alcohol and drug use finds alcohol use is still declining on most measures. digital.nhs.uk/data-and-infor…

If you’re at Lisbon Addictions check out room 1.05 on Wednesday after lunch for a brief overview of alcohol availability in Ireland

We wrote a book! Everything we learned over six years of work on the decline in youth drinking in the UK, Australia, Sweden and Finland. taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.…

Strongly recommend this piece on taking pleasure seriously in public health work around alcohol. Lots to discuss - what works in alcohol policy debate, whether/how we can incorporate pleasure into public health research, and why previous work on pleasure hasn't gained traction.

People sometimes claim alcohol mostly causes 'rare' cancers. This simply isn't true. Alcohol causes both breast and bowel cancer, two of the most common forms. These also aren't rare alcohol-related cancers; they account for a third of all cases. doi.org/10.1016/S1470-…

Important article explaining why the NAS report on alcohol consumption and health uses a flawed approach to understand the risks of low level alcohol consumption. Claims that low levels of drinking are associated with reduced health risks are not robust. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Gen Z seem to be drinking less alcohol than older generations. Why is this—and could it be a public health opportunity? Alcohol Health Alliance UK John Holmes OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives The BMJ bmj.com/content/390/bm…