Fears that supermarkets will still be able to sell alcohol at 'rock bottom prices' despite the proposed ' ban on below cost sales ' have been highlighted by the Morning Advertiser ( MA ). One report, 'Off-trade can beat below-cost ban' , suggests a definition of 'below cost' supported by a leading industry body would still allow beer to be sold for for about 54p a can and wine for £2.33 a bottle.
Filed in UK Alcohol Policy
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Tagged alcohol industry, almr, british-beer, crackdown, exploit-alcohol, footfall-driver, government, licensing, proposed, stores-telling, the-below-cost
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The Scottish Parliament’s Health and Sport Committee agreed that the country’s alcohol problem must be addressed as it reviews the latest stage of the Alcohol Bill , but is divided on whether minimum pricing should be adopted as key measure – BBC report here .
A new study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) reveals that daily underage drinking-related visits to hospital emergency departments are 11 percent higher during the Memorial Day weekend than they are on an average day…
Researchers at the University of Sheffield have found that there are substantially increased death rates from alcohol-related diseases in socioeconomically deprived areas of England and Wales…
The dietary supplement CDP-choline, sold as a brain-boosting agent and under study for stroke and traumatic brain injury, may block skull and brain damage that can result from alcohol consumption early in pregnancy, Medical College of Georgia researchers report…
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Tagged alcohol-consumption, brain-damage, brain-injury, cdp, dietary-supplement, georgia, may-block, medical, medical-college, pregnancy / obstetrics, under-study
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Crystal meth (methamphetamine) is a highly addictive drug that seduces victims by increasing self-esteem and sexual pleasure, and inducing euphoria.
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Medical grade heroin administered under medical supervision results in larger reductions in street heroin use in long-term (chronic) heroin addicts who are not responding properly to treatment, compared to either injectable or oral methadone, say researchers from The National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), King’s College Londond (KCL), who are involved in RIOT…
Aims To quantify the overall effectiveness of computer-delivered interventions for alcohol and tobacco use.Methods Meta-analysis of 42 effect sizes from randomized controlled trials, based on the responses of 10 632 individuals.Results The weighted average effect size (d) was 0.20, P < 0.001. While lower effect sizes were associated with studies addressing tobacco use (d = 0.14) this may well reflect differences in the types of outcome measure used
Filed in Evidence Base, tobacco
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Tagged effect-sizes, from-randomized, lower-effect, may-represent, minimal-contact, outcome-measure, substance-use, the-internet, the-responses, tobacco, well-reflect
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Aims To compare the effect of alcohol intake on 10-year mortality for men and women over the age of 65 years. Design, setting and participants Two prospective cohorts of community-dwelling men aged 65[ndash]79 years at baseline in 1996 (n = 11 727) and women aged 70[ndash]75 years in 1996 (n = 12 432).Measurements Alcohol was assessed according to frequency of use (number of days alcohol was consumed per week) and quantity consumed per day. Cox proportional hazards models were compared for men and women for all-cause and cause-specific mortality.Findings Compared with older adults who did not consume alcohol every week, the risk of all-cause mortality was reduced in men reporting up to four standard drinks per day and in women who consumed one or two drinks per day
Addictive behaviour is as prevalent in Germany as in other western countries, but in contrast to some European countries and the United States, very little money was given to this research field. Change came in the early 1990s, when the German government started to launch specific grants for addiction research. The first chair in addiction research was created in 1999 (Karl Mann) at the Central Institute of Mental Health Mannheim (CIMH; University of Heidelberg).
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Tagged biological, central, deeply-involved, department, european, german, issues-as-well, launch-specific, mental-health, over-the-years, perhaps-because, research, united, university
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