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Keeping an eye on the ball – alcohol marketing and sports sponsorship

By Dr Sheila Gilheany, CEO, Alcohol Action Ireland In this blog post, Dr Sheila Gilheany discusses a recent report on alcohol marketing in the 2020...

Care and treatment for people with alcohol-related brain damage: a matter of human rights

By Julie Paterson, chief executive, and Dr Lisa Schölin, researcher, Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland Alcohol-related brain damage (ARBD) is a condition caused by prolonged,...

Myths, Lockdowns, Curfews & Bans: Alcohol consumption & harms during COVID-19

By Yvette Mojica-Perez (PhD student, La Trobe University) and Dr. Claire Wilkinson (Senior Research Fellow, University of New South Wales) Last month the International Confederation...

New SHAAP Director, Elinor Jayne

By Elinor Jayne, Director of Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP). In her first week in the job, SHAAP’s new Director reflects on the...

Men and Alcohol: Hiding in Plain Sight

By Colin Shevills, Ex-Director of Balance, the North East of England’s alcohol office. Men continue to drink more and consequently face more alcohol-related harms than...

3 years of MUP in Scotland: promising signs, more to be done

By Dr Alastair MacGilchrist, Chair of Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP). MUP has gained wide acceptance from policy makers and the public. There...

Developments in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders – a UK perspective

By Dr Lisa Schölin, public health researcher, formerly Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and member of the Scottish Alcohol Research Network (SARN). Fetal...

Alcohol monopolies

By Robin Room, Professor at the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia and the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, Department of...

Residential rehabilitation: powering up in 2021

By Dr David McCartney (@DocDavidM), Addiction Medicine Specialist, Clinical Lead of LEAP (NHS Lothian) and Chair of the Scottish Government’s Residential Rehabilitation Working Group “Rehab?...

Asylum, destitution and harmful alcohol use

By Dr Steph Grohmann, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Centre for Homelessness and Inclusion Health (CHIH), University of Edinburgh “If somebody has no hope...

Reflecting on Rural Matters: conducting research during the COVID-19 pandemic

By Jackie MacDiarmid, SHAAP Research and Projects Officer I began working with SHAAP at the end of 2018, just after completing my Masters in Public...

Understanding Alcohol in the Pandemic

By Dr Peter Rice, Steering Group Chair, SHAAP In the third week of March 2020 I went to the supermarket at the height of the...