Wednesday, January 18, 2012
The Home Office have opened a consultation on new powers due to be brought in under Licensing Act reforms . The consultation is seeking specific responses on the late night levy and Early Morning Restriction Orders (EMROs) as measures to help curb late night drinking problems. See the press release here .
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Background: This is a SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE to determine the availability of potential small businesses (e.g., 8(a), service-disabled veteran owned small business, HUBZone small business, small disadvantaged business, veteran-owned small business, and women-owned small business) in accordance with FAR 7.104(d). The potential small business will need to demonstrate the capability to perform all facets of a clinical pharmacology study from initiation and conduct of the study through the data analyses phase and preparation of the final reports. . .
Filed in tobacco
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Also tagged availability, bioavailability, capability, data, evaluate-effect, its-metabolites, science, science-center, small-business, study, tobacco
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Monday, December 12, 2011
Scotland's ban on multi-buy deals has reduced sales, according to figures from retail analysts Nielsen. Sales of wine fell 5%, spirits by 3% and beer by 8% during the first eight weeks of the ban compared to 2010. See reports from the BBC and the Herald .
Filed in UK Alcohol Policy, recovery
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Also tagged alcohol industry, bbc, british, british-liver, cards, forthcoming, government, government-led, health, leicestershire, multi-buy-deals, premises-or-ban, promotes-itself
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
The economics think-tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) have published a new report on Alcohol pricing and taxation policies . It echoes many of the findings from a report last year in which it suggested minimum pricing would transfer further profits to industry and retailers, therefore favouring increased taxation.
Filed in Evidence Base, UK Alcohol Policy
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Also tagged alcohol-insight, behavioural, Evidence Base, fiscal-studies, government, industry, institute, likely-increase, minimum-pricing, policy, price, through-the-tax, university
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
A new report explores whether UK laws relating to the sale and consumption of alcohol are 'fit for purpose' and are being effectively enforced. The report finds that many laws are not being fully utilised, although a variety of measures are still required to achieve alcohol harm reduction. Download ‘Lost Orders?: Law Enforcement and Alcohol in England and Wales’ or download the Executive Summary
Filed in Guidance, Harm Reduction, UK Alcohol Policy, crime
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Also tagged alcohol industry, community safety, consumers, fully-utilised, government, harm-reduction, joseph, joseph-rowntree, licensing, portman-group, research, tackle-underage
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Abstract: Background: By recounting the making of the office that contributed to the implementation of the harm reduction policy in Taiwan, this paper aims to answer two questions: Who and what assembled to make this policy possible? Which conceptual tool works best to understand what this policy-making was all about?Methods: The research was designed as a multi-sited qualitative study whose materials were collected through archival research, in-depth interviews, and direct field observation.
Filed in Evidence Base, Harm Reduction
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Also tagged conceptual-tool, constructivist, governmental, harm-reduction, implementation, materials-were, policy, policy-possible, social, street, taiwan, the-office
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Reports on Alcohol Diversion Schemes (ADS) in Herts and Derbyshire have been released by Druglink.
Filed in UK Alcohol Policy, crime
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Also tagged above-the-safe, alcohol, alcohol-arrest, alcohol-fuelled, health, personal-health, project, public-order, reports-provide, says-the-course
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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, chief-executive, driving-forum, european-drink, government, health, history, night, policy, research
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Increased cancer risk with alcohol consumption highlighted Research published in the BMJ has highlighted that around 10% of all cancers in men and 3% in women are attributable to alcohol consumption.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Following the recent below cost ban and Home Office publication of the likely pricing impacts , the drug and alcohol Bank has released a series of bulletins: UK government assesses the likely impacts of alcohol price rises How alcohol pricing might affect the health of the British population Higher prices and taxes on alcohol help prevent crime Economic impacts of alcohol pricing policy options in the UK Will the poor be most affected by an end to cheap alcohol?
Filed in UK Alcohol Policy, crime
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Also tagged alcohol, alcohol pricing, alcohol-findings, commons, likely-pricing, might-affect, prevent-crime, prices, research, will-the-poor
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