Mark Hunter, chief executive of Britain’s largest brewer Molson Corrs, has suggested an 'alcohol minister' should be considered to lead on a more cohesive alcohol strategy, including further action on price and taxation.
Filed in UK Alcohol Policy
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Also tagged alcohol pricing, beer, binge drinking, current-alcohol, molson-corrs, over-the-past, policy, policy-as-dis, potential, promotion, rise-on-beer, strength, systematic
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Government focus on benefit claimants with drug and alcohol problems The Prime Minister has spoken out on helping to move “trapped” incapacity benefit claimants with drug or alcohol problems into work. The Government plans to re-assess all people on incapacity benefit by 2014, including 42,360 people listed with 'alcoholism' and 37,480 with drug dependency. David Cameron denied they were stigmatising those with genuine problems and asked “…is it OK to leave these people on incapacity benefit, year after year, not examining their circumstances, not seeing if we can help them?”
Filed in UK Alcohol Policy
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Also tagged alcohol industry, binge drinking, driving-forum, european-drink, government, health, history, night, office, policy, research
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Responding to a study in the British Medical Journal showing one in 10 cancers in men and one in 33 in women across Western Europe are caused by drinking, Chris Sorek, Chief Executive of alcohol awareness charity, Drinkaware Says: “We know people are often surprised to hear there is a link between alcohol and cancer – Drinkaware research shows under a third (30%) of adults…
Home Office 'drug strategy blog' launched The Home Office drug [and alcohol] strategy blog is open until Monday 21st March to capture comments from delivery partners.
Filed in UK Alcohol Policy, recovery
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Also tagged alcohol industry, brigid-simmonds, drugs, london, news, organisation, policy, prevention, professor, professor-david, recovery, spirits-trade
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The Morning Advertiser (MA) is campaigning for the Government to reduce VAT on the hospitality sector to 5% . The MA claims it could help create 220,000 jobs and rejuvenate the sector
Filed in Guidance, UK Alcohol Policy, recovery
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Also tagged alcohol campaigns, alcohol industry, brigid-simmonds, forthcoming, from-the-irish, government, hospitality, issued-guidance, licensing, press-release, sector, vital-the-beer
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
Reacting to the British Medical Journal research released yesterday (Wednesday 23rd February 2011) which says individuals who drink alcohol in moderation are less likely to develop heart disease compared to non-drinkers, Chris Sorek, Chief Executive of alcohol awareness charity Drinkaware, says: “This isn’t the first piece of research to suggest alcohol has a protective ef…
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Also tagged alcohol-awareness, british, chief, chris, chris-sorek, develop-heart, disease-compared, journal, research-released, suggest-alcohol, the-first
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Monday, February 21, 2011
The Guardian last week published a series of articles questioning the Government's alcohol policy and the state of the responsibilty deal . In the article 'Alcohol policy in tatters as health experts revolt' , the Guardian claimed health members planned to walk away, angry at their limited influence in favour of industry agendas. It reports “The so-called responsibility deal will do the “bare minimum”, such as putting information on beer mats”, whilst issues such as marketing and promotion were said to be “outside the parameters of the discussions”
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released data showing alcohol-related deaths have fallen since 2008, but remain significantly higher than the the early 1990s. Results from the General LiFestyle Survey (GLF), formerly the General Household Survey (GHS), were also released highlighting drinking and smoking differences between between socio-economic groups. Don Shenker, Chief Executive of Alcohol Concern stated: “The slight fall in 2009 in alcohol-related deaths mirrors a slight drop in alcohol consumption, and while this is positive, it is wholly due to a drop in consumer spending as a result of the recession.” Figures from the BBPA have shown a downward trend in consumption since 2004 .
Filed in UK Alcohol Policy
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Also tagged alcohol-concern, alcohol-studies, bbc, between-between, binge drinking, festyle-survey, from-the-bbpa, further-alcohol, health, policy, recession, survey, women and alcohol, young people
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Thursday, January 13, 2011
Only two in five adults (42%) recognise how many alcohol units are in common drinks, according to research by Drinkaware . The survey also found that less than a third of adults (29% of women and 32% of men) can correctly state the recommended daily unit guidelines for their respective gender. The survey of over 4,000 UK adults found whilst 85% of adults had heard of 'alcohol units', only 30% of women and 46% of men could correctly identify which drinks roughly equate to one unit of alcohol when given a list of drinks
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
DrugScope responded to the publication of the UK Drug Policy Commission report, Getting serious about stigma. Martin Barnes, Chief Executive of DrugScope, said: “DrugScope welcomes this timely report which highlights one of the most significant barriers to improving treatment outcomes and supporting recovery…
Filed in Uncategorized, recovery
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Also tagged barnes, chief, improving-treatment, martin-barnes, policy, policy-commission, publication, recovery, the-most, the-publication, timely-report
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