Since the Queen's speech failed to confirm whether Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) truly has has been ditched, the jostling, debate and politics surrounding the issue goes on.
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The alcohol IBA blog was set up to promote learning, understanding and the delivery of IBA through news, links and ideas on IBA from a range of contributors. The blog now has a discussion forum for anyone to share their views, comments or questions on any IBA issues. Recent posts from the IBA blog are highlighted below: Full AUDIT screening Vs shorter tools (FAST, AUDIT-C etc) for IBA The 10 question full AUDIT is the ‘gold standard’ screening tool for the identification of alcohol use disorders.
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An evaluation of Scotland's Licensing 2005 Act has been released , reporting positive impacts such as fewer irresponsible promotions and benefits of an appointed Licensing Standards Officer (LSO) for each council. Download the Licensing (Scotland) Act Evaluation Final Report.pdf Scotland's Licensing Act came into effect in September 2009 and outlaws promotions providing alcohol free of charge, or at a discounted price on the purchase of one or more drinks. It also bans licensed premises from offering happy hours, drinking games or speed drinking deals.
Some recent media stories and other reports are highlighted below. 'Middle classes are in denial' or 'know better than experts' were recent headlines responding to research published in the BMC
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The integration of mental health interventions into HIV prevention and treatment platforms can reduce the opportunity costs of care and improve treatment outcomes, argues a new Policy Forum article published in this week’s PLOS Medicine…
Rumours that the Queen's speech would confirm whether Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) had been scrapped were proven false this week. However when later asked in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister David Cameron promised to deliver a 'package of measures' to deal with cheap alcohol: “On minimum pricing for alcohol, it is important that we take action to deal with deeply discounted alcohol, with cans of lager sometimes selling for as little as 25p in supermarkets. We will be bringing forward a package of measures, and it is important that we get this right.” Recently Home Office minister Jeremy Brown had said the Government was yet to confirm its decision on MUP and were listening to “powerfull arguments on both sides” following the consultation.
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The Government has emphasised it is yet to confirm its decision on minimum unit pricing (MUP) as Home Office minister Jeremy Brown said the Government were listening to “powerfull arguments on both sides” following the recent consultation. The Home Office website still states it “will introduce a minimum unit price for alcohol” – but for how long? Last week fresh reports that the Prime Minister had u-turned on minimum unit pricing emerged, suggesting he had given in to pressure from a number of cabinet ministers.
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Sadie Boniface, who is currently writing up her PhD in UCL’s Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, has contributed the following guest post.
The 2011 General Lifestyle Survey has been released , including Chapter 2: drinking (pdf) . The GLS 2011 explores trends in reported alcohol consumption since 2005 and confirms a fall in frequency of drinking above the guidelines amongst men and women. However health groups are keen to emphasise a significant longer trend rise in alcohol misuse and harms since the 1950s. Respondents to the 2011 GLF were asked questions relating to average weekly alcohol consumption and the maximum amount drunk on any day in the last week.
Earlier this year the ONS released the latest Statistical bulletin for alcohol-related deaths in the UK (2011) .